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Underwhelming

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Failing to interest; not as exciting as promised or expected.

    "If I grant you that the German language is spoken by the overwhelming majority of the German people you will agree with me that the best music of Germany has been composed by the underwhelming minority. Now, if the overwhelming majority of Germans are enemies, it follows that the underwhelming minority of Germans must be friendly."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of underwhelm form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

Facetious play on overwhelm, with under.

Etymology 2

Facetious play on overwhelm, with under.

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