underrepresented

Having less than adequate or sufficient representation.

Adjective

  1. Having less than adequate or sufficient representation.
    • Over more than four decades between 1978 and 2019, the proportion of medical school enrollees who identify as Black, Hispanic or members of other underrepresented groups has stayed “well below” the proportions that each...

    Antonyms: overrepresented

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 represented English underrepresented From under- + represented.

Forms

more underrepresented most underrepresented

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of underrepresent

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.