underwhelm

English

Etymology

under- +‎ whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm first recorded in the 1950's

Verb

underwhelm (third-person singular simple present underwhelms, present participle underwhelming, simple past and past participle underwhelmed)

1. To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.

Antonyms

• overawe, overwhelm

Translations

fail to impress

• Dutch: teleurstellen (nl)
• French: décevoir (fr)
• Ido: deceptar (io)
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• Polish: rozczarować (pl)
• Portuguese: desapontar (pt)
• Russian: разочарова́ть (ru) (razočarovátʹ), разочаро́вывать (ru) (razočaróvyvatʹ)
• Spanish: decepcionar (es)