Word Meanings - UNDERDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.

Related words: (words related to UNDERDO)

• OVERDOER
  One who overdoes.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• OVERDO
  1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak. 2. To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• PROPERTIED
  Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
• OPPOSABLE
  1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
• REQUISITE
  That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable. God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. Wake.
• PROPERISPOME
  Properispomenon.
• PROPER
  Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. In proper, individually; privately. Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla , one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. --
• OVERDOSE
  To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
• OPPOSE
  1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
• OPPOSITISEPALOUS
  Placed in front of a sepal.
• OPPOSITION
  The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol
• PREREQUISITE
  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.