Underrepresented

adj, verb

adj, verb ·6 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of underrepresent form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 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 group represented in the general US population, according to a 2021 report in The New England Journal of Medicine."

Example

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"Even though it has one of the largest numbers of native speakers in the world, the language is underrepresented on the internet."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From under- + represented.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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