underwhelm
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English
Etymology
From under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm[1] first recorded in the 1950's.[2]
Pronunciation
Verb
underwhelm (third-person singular simple present underwhelms, present participle underwhelming, simple past and past participle underwhelmed)
- To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.
- 2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.
Antonyms
Translations
fail to impress
Finnish: olla mitäänsanomaton
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See also
References
- ^ “underwhelm”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ “underwhelm”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
