underbounded

Having insufficient boundaries.

Adjective

  1. Having insufficient boundaries.
    • In underbounded systems people feel fragmented and isolated. - 1983, Barry Alan Farber, Stress and Burnout in the Human Service Professions, page 151:
    • In an underbounded focal group, members feel chaotic, disorganized, dissatisfied, and ineffectual. - 2010, Clayton Alderfer, The Practice of Organizational Diagnosis: Theory and Methods, →ISBN:
    • Conversely, underbounded people often identify with everyone but themselves. - 2013, Elliot Greene, Barbara Goodrich-Dunn, The Psychology of the Body, →ISBN, page 172:

Forms

more underbounded most underbounded

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of underbound