under- The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

under- (prefix)


means “small” (undersized), “beneath” (undercurrent), “of lower rank” (underclassman), “below normal” (undereducated), and “insufficient” or “too little” (underpowered, undercooked, undersubscribed). It is usually prefixed without a hyphen.	1