under-attended

English

Adjective

under-attended (comparative more under-attended, superlative most under-attended)

1. Alternative form of underattended
   1. Attended by too few people.
      • 2010, Nigel Cawthorne, The World's Most Evil Gangsters, →ISBN:

        Most kids from Brixton were sent to Kingsdale School in the relatively posh area of Sydenham, as the residents there tended to send their children to private – and public – schools, leaving local schools relatively under-attended.

      • 2014, Michael Spörke, Big Mama Thornton: The Life and Music, →ISBN:

        The following spring Leadbelly, in his only European appearance, played several under-attended but warmly received concertsin the samecity; a young Alexis Korner made the pilgimage from London and it spurred him into becoming a busy blues pilgim in Britain.

      • 2015, Michele Fitzpatrick, The Women's Center, →ISBN:

        Surely, this was a lovely event on the whole. Perhaps a tad under-attended, maybe a wee bit unstructured.

   2. Given too little attention.
      • 2005, William H. Bicksler, Commentary on Ecclesiastes, →ISBN, page 23:

        But the king shouldn't complain about long hours and tiresome work as chief supervisor, it is those of Israel who are actually so exhausted that their farms are being left under-attended.

      • 2011, Linda L. Emanuel, S. Lawrence Librach, Palliative Care, →ISBN:

        It may be insufficient to provide health care and employment to the family caregiver if employment outside the house means that children are under-attended.

      • 2015, Md Mizanur Rahman, Tan Tai Yong, International Migration and Development in South Asia, →ISBN, page 173:

        The diasporic involvement got its expression, space and relevance within the context of unattended or under-attended tasks by the principal developmental actors such as the state, market, and constitutional bodies of village governance.

Verb

under-attended

1. simple past and past participle of under-attend