underspecify
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Verb
underspecify (third-person singular simple present underspecifies, present participle underspecifying, simple past and past participle underspecified)
- To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information; to specify incompletely.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “specify incompletely”): overspecify
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂én
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én
- English terms prefixed with under-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *(H)n̥dʰér
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁entér
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