undercooked

Insufficiently cooked, so as to be unpalatable or inedible.

Adjective

  1. Insufficiently cooked, so as to be unpalatable or inedible.
    • I can't eat this chicken – it's undercooked.
  2. Very lightly cooked.
    • The broccoli was nicely undercooked.
    • For the main course, order any of the fresh fish from the blackboard; the swordfish is always wonderful (and nicely undercooked, unless you specify otherwise). - 1987 April, “Restaurants”, in Orange Coast Magazine,...
    • The yellowfin tuna at a seaside restaurant is nicely undercooked. - 2008, Robert D. Temple, Edge Effects: The Border-name Places, page 214:
  3. Done with insufficient energy, enthusiasm, etc.
    • His stage portrayal of Hamlet was distinctly undercooked.

Forms

more undercooked most undercooked

Synonyms

underdone

Antonyms

overcooked overdone

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of undercook