underfed

Inadequately fed.

Adjective

  1. Inadequately fed.
    • [B]ut greater Bombay almost doubles the number of overworked, underhoused and underfed citizens. - 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 160:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English fed English underfed From under- + fed.

Forms

more underfed most underfed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of underfeed