Adjective: underspoken
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more underspoken |
| Superlative | most underspoken |
Sample Sentences
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The Anglo-Saxon Charles Darwin, underspoken and gentlemanly, impersonal and asexual and blankly observant in his writings, was a hero in teeming, passionate, polyglot Guayaquil because he was the inspiration for a tourist boom. [1999, Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos, page 16:]
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But trust him, I don't think I ever did. Even in his new, earnest, underspoken self. [2002, Peter Carnahan, Pharnabazus Sits on the Ground with the Spartan Captains, page 77:]
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In a very underspoken sense one may view the achievements of Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe - the giants on whose shoulders Newton stood — and Newton as being the unfolding and solution of this very problem. [2015, Elliott H. Lieb, Studies in Mathematical Physics, page 3:]
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"We are simply doing our service for Gilead," she said in her underspoken robot Aunt's way, and the Angel said, "Praise be." [2019, Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, →ISBN, page 345:]
Adjectives inflected like underspoken
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology