underthink

To give insufficient thought or consideration to; fail to consider adequately.

Verb

  1. To give insufficient thought or consideration to; fail to consider adequately.
    • There was a new one; usually, I underthink these things. - 2007, Brian Haig, Man in the Middle:
    • This gives us plenty of opportunity to overthink — or underthink — the problem, and this is where we really start to bollix things up. - 2008, Jeffrey Kluger, Simplexity:

Origin

From under- + think. Compare Old English underþenċan (“to look into, consider”).

Forms

underthinks underthinking underthought

Antonyms

overthink

Derived

underthinker