underspecific

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English

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Etymology

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From under- +‎ specific.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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underspecific (comparative more underspecific, superlative most underspecific)

  1. Not specific enough.
    • 2016, Shiwali Mohan, Aaron Mininger, John Laird, “Towards an Indexical Model of Situated Language Comprehension for Cognitive Agents in Physical Worlds”, in arXiv‎[1]:
      We show that exploiting diverse information sources can alleviate ambiguities that arise from contextual use of underspecific referring expressions and unexpressed argument alternations of verbs.
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