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underattend

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To pay too little attention to.

Examples

“A few use⟳ more drugs than we wish⟳ to know⟳; most are wonderful parents but some underattend to their children well beyond neglect⟳.”
“Although temporal and spatial thinking are never really alternative to each other, I've consistently tried in Touching Feeling to push⟳ back against an occupational tendency to underattend to the rich dimension of space.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

underattended underattending underattends underattribute underattributed underattributes

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