Contextualizebeta

underwhelming

adj

Etymology

Facetious play on overwhelm, with under.

Definitions

  1. Failing to interest

    Failing to interest; not as exciting as promised or expected.

    • Davis, plush as ever, is a little whiny and underwhelming as Murray's girlfriend, who spends much of her time nurturing Quaid, doing his familiar sweet-natured lummox.
    • But in Washington and just about everywhere else, sales of "The Secret Man," Bob Woodward's story of the source known as Deep Throat, have been underwhelming.

  2. present participle and gerund of underwhelm

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underwhelming. 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