underimagined

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From under- +‎ imagined.

Adjective[edit]

underimagined (comparative more underimagined, superlative most underimagined)

  1. Insufficiently imagined; betraying a lack of imagination.
    • 1993, Peter Wolfe, Alarms and Epitaphs: The Art of Eric Ambler[1], →ISBN, page 216:
      Though craftsmanly, smooth, and committed, in the main, they nonetheless seem underimagined.
    • 2012, Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys[2], →ISBN, page 113:
      Caithness was infiltrated with a palpable sense of being underimagined.
    • 2013, Kristiaan Versluys, Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel[3], →ISBN:
      The scenes in the burning tower are woefully underimagined.