underspoken
English
Verb
underspoken
- present participle of underspeak
Adjective
underspoken (comparative more underspoken, superlative most underspoken)
- Characterized by understatement; understated.
- 1999, Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos, page 16:
- The Anglo-Saxon Charles Darwin, underspoken and gentlemanly, impersonal and asexual and blankly observant in his writings, was a hero in teeming, passionate, polyglot Guayaquil because he was the inspiration for a tourist boom.
- 2002, Peter Carnahan, Pharnabazus Sits on the Ground with the Spartan Captains, page 77:
- But trust him, I don't think I ever did. Even in his new, earnest, underspoken self.
- 2015, Elliott H. Lieb, Studies in Mathematical Physics, page 3:
- In a very underspoken sense one may view the achievements of Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe - the giants on whose shoulders Newton stood — and Newton as being the unfolding and solution of this very problem.
- 2019, Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, →ISBN, page 345:
- "We are simply doing our service for Gilead," she said in her underspoken robot Aunt's way, and the Angel said, "Praise be."