underimpress

English

Etymology

under- +‎ impress

Verb

underimpress (third-person singular simple present underimpresses, present participle underimpressing, simple past and past participle underimpressed)

To impress less than expected; to disappoint, to underwhelm.
- 2001 September 13, Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1200893698, page 230:
  The tendency for judges to be overly impressed by family work done by fathers and underimpressed by that done by mothers shows how women can be made vulnerable by a standard designed around gender rather than around sex.
- 2014, Tod Davies, “Three: Food for Home”, in Jam Today Too, United States: Exterminating Angel Press, →ISBN:
  Farmed trout, which used to underimpress me with its boring tastelessness, has gone through some kind of taste revolution: it's absolutely terrific, now, whenever I buy it.
- 2020 August 25, Niruj Agrawal, Rafey Faruqui, Mayur Bodani, Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry)‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1187199365, page 524:
  Just as too much scientific evidence and medical detail may overwhelm or underimpress the court, the opinion should not contain too much 'heart-searching' and repetitive reasoning.

单词	underimpress
释义	underimpress English Etymology under- +‎ impress Verb underimpress (third-person singular simple present underimpresses, present participle underimpressing, simple past and past participle underimpressed) To impress less than expected; to disappoint, to underwhelm. 2001 September 13, Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1200893698, page 230: The tendency for judges to be overly impressed by family work done by fathers and underimpressed by that done by mothers shows how women can be made vulnerable by a standard designed around gender rather than around sex. 2014, Tod Davies, “Three: Food for Home”, in Jam Today Too, United States: Exterminating Angel Press, →ISBN: Farmed trout, which used to underimpress me with its boring tastelessness, has gone through some kind of taste revolution: it's absolutely terrific, now, whenever I buy it. 2020 August 25, Niruj Agrawal, Rafey Faruqui, Mayur Bodani, Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry)‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1187199365, page 524: Just as too much scientific evidence and medical detail may overwhelm or underimpress the court, the opinion should not contain too much 'heart-searching' and repetitive reasoning.
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