Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In or to a place beneath; below.
- adv. On the lower face or underside.
- prep. Under; below; beneath.
- prep. Under the power or control of.
- adj. Lower; under.
- n. The part or side below or under.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Beneath; below; in a lower place.
- Under; beneath.
Wiktionary
- adv. Below; in a place beneath.
- prep. Under, below, beneath.
- prep. Under the control or power of.
- adj. Under, lower.
- n. The part under or lower.
- n. A background radio sound track played during a specific announcement or program.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adv. on the lower or downward side; on the underside of
- adv. under or below an object or a surface; at a lower place or level; directly beneath
Etymologies
- Old English underneoþan ("underneath"), ultimately from Proto-Germanic (Wiktionary)
- Middle English undernethe, from Old English underneothan : under, under; see under + neothan, below; see beneath. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The company secretary inscribed his name underneath with a grand flourish.”
“The skin underneath is constantly breaking down and is very painful.”
“Portia, and engraved; but I think no one, without the label underneath, would have imagined in it even the intention of my portrait.”
“I downloaded the router's user guide and find in a section that mentions: "if client device ask for the router's PIN, it can be found on the label underneath the router".”
“Most museums have some serious regulations against photography and not much effort goes into reading the label underneath the painting where the artwork is hung.”
“While most museums have some serious regulations against photography and not much effort goes into reading the label underneath the painting where the artwork is hung.”
“The code is handily printed on a label underneath too, along with the default web admin username and password, plus instructions on how to use the WPS button, and how to reset and restore the router to factory defaults.”
“Honestly, though - there were only a few reviewers who could look past the pseudo-incestual overtones to see what was underneath, and your description of the "underneath" is better than any I could give myself.”
“The “INTERNET” with the arrow underneath is very very cute.”
“The "flat disk" underneath is the internalized vestigial shell of the slugs in the genus Limax (also present in some other genera, for example, Deroceras).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘underneath’.
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Neat
neaten, beneath, underneath, neatherd, delineate, lineation, neath, neat's-foot oil, cuneate, uneaten, enneatic, neatnik and 20 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 173 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Tunie: Word Disassociation
(I'm fairly sure that I'm subverting the whole concept of the Tunie by listing this song. Subversion! Yes! HA HA HA HA! Mine is an evil laugh!!!)
Word Disassociation
antidisestablishm..., quickly, ruby, bionic, about, crouch, a cappella, imposter, flames, distraction, murderous, over and 181 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Speaking in Tongues - an REM list
Words heard in various REM songs that I enjoy and that I think are indicative of the band. Not too literally, of course.
pilgrimage, pageant, suspicion, penitence, gentlemen, chronic, stigma, deadlier, transit, fortunate, momentum, misconstrued and 162 more...
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TN9 Lesson 102
portable, camp stove, stove, appliance, ice chest, case, soft drink, say, flashlight, goodies, prepared, attached and 61 more...
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CravinforClavin's Words
bellicose, megalopolis, spurious, interstitial, elegiac, crushing, proselytize, strident, hirsute, peripatetic, stultify, apoplectic and 66 more...
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TT3 Lesson 30
outdoors, camp stove, stove, ice chest, appliance, case, soft drink, knife, fork, silverware, tool, tool kit and 59 more...
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Marishna's Words
free, underneath, understand, foresake, restless, vowel, trowel, cigarettes, secret, song, crash, impatient and 6 more...
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now-positions
without prepping
for, to, from, toward, in, through, with, on, against, into, at, by and 48 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, U
udder, undercarriage, umpteen, umbrage, upholstery, unnerving, ubiquitous, ultraviolet, untoward, upheaval, unabashed, uncanny and 86 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for underneath.
bilby The seamy side of overneath. Dec 14, 2008