Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to underinvest
Participle: underinvested
Gerund: underinvesting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | underinvest |
| you | underinvest |
| he;she;it | underinvests |
| we | underinvest |
| you | underinvest |
| they | underinvest |
Perfect
| I | have underinvested |
| you | have underinvested |
| he;she;it | has underinvested |
| we | have underinvested |
| you | have underinvested |
| they | have underinvested |
Past
| I | underinvested |
| you | underinvested |
| he;she;it | underinvested |
| we | underinvested |
| you | underinvested |
| they | underinvested |
Pluperfect
| I | had underinvested |
| you | had underinvested |
| he;she;it | had underinvested |
| we | had underinvested |
| you | had underinvested |
| they | had underinvested |
Future
| I | will underinvest |
| you | will underinvest |
| he;she;it | will underinvest |
| we | will underinvest |
| you | will underinvest |
| they | will underinvest |
Future Perfect
| I | will have underinvested |
| you | will have underinvested |
| he;she;it | will have underinvested |
| we | will have underinvested |
| you | will have underinvested |
| they | will have underinvested |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | underinvest |
| you | underinvest |
| he;she;it | underinvest |
| we | underinvest |
| you | underinvest |
| they | underinvest |
Perfect
| I | have underinvested |
| you | have underinvested |
| he;she;it | have underinvested |
| we | have underinvested |
| you | have underinvested |
| they | have underinvested |
Imperfect
| I | underinvested |
| you | underinvested |
| he;she;it | underinvested |
| we | underinvested |
| you | underinvested |
| they | underinvested |
Pluperfect
| I | had underinvested |
| you | had underinvested |
| he;she;it | had underinvested |
| we | had underinvested |
| you | had underinvested |
| they | had underinvested |
Conditional
Present
| I | would underinvest |
| you | would underinvest |
| he;she;it | would underinvest |
| we | would underinvest |
| you | would underinvest |
| they | would underinvest |
Perfect
| I | would have underinvested |
| you | would have underinvested |
| he;she;it | would have underinvested |
| we | would have underinvested |
| you | would have underinvested |
| they | would have underinvested |
Imperative
| you | underinvest |
| we | Let's underinvest |
| you | underinvest |
Verbs conjugated like 'underinvest'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'underinvest'
deinvest,
overinvest,
undercrest,
undertest,
uninvest,
disinvest,
reinvest,
undefine,
underadjust,
underassess,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
4. Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ér
6. Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
7. Proto-Germanic *under
8. Proto-West Germanic *undar
9. Old English under-
10. Middle English under-
11. English under-
12. English invest
13. English underinvest
14. From under- + invest.
Sample Sentences
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Rentokil was exposed as a business whose managers had underinvested to keep up with past glories. [2009 January 17, Nils Pratley, “Nils Pratley on Saturday: How to change unjust deserts”, in The Guardian:]
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The company also underinvested in creating an ecosystem for people to easily expand Alexa’s abilities, in the way that Apple had done with its App Store, which helped stoke interest in the iPhone, the person said. [2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]