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underpunctuate

verb

Etymology

From under- + punctuate.

  1. derived from pūnctus
  2. borrowed from pūnctuātus
  3. prefixed as underpunctuate — “under + punctuate”

Definitions

  1. To punctuate insufficiently.

    • Do not overpunctuate; it is much easier than to underpunctuate. The general tendency nowadays is to make punctuation less copious than formerly.
    • Do not overpunctuate. But do not underpunctuate. Make your sentence constructions so clear that it will be possible for you to keep punctuation at a minimum.
    • [George] Ade tended to underpunctuate. The punctuation of the letters and the capitalization which was a trademark remain as they appear in the copy texts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underpunctuate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA