underinstruct

To provide (someone) with insufficient instruction.

Verb

  1. To provide (someone) with insufficient instruction.
    • […] an overenthusiastic and underinstructed loading crew of Germans had stuffed his three-and-a-half-ton-capacity ship with seven and a half tons of cargo. - 1961, Ely Jacques Kahn Jr., “Die Luftbrücke”, in A Reporter...
    • [Doctors] tend to avoid describing side effects […]. This occasionally leads them to underinstruct their patients. - 1988, J. Alfred Jones, Gerald M. Phillips, chapter 4, in Communicating with Your Doctor, Carbondale:...

Origin

From under- + instruct.

Forms

underinstructs underinstructing underinstructed