underspecify
To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information; to specify incompletely.
Verb
- To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information; to specify incompletely.
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 specify English underspecify From under- + specify.