underattend

English

Alternative forms

• under-attend

Etymology

From under- +‎ attend.

Pronunciation

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Verb

underattend (third-person singular simple present underattends, present participle underattending, simple past and past participle underattended)

1. To pay too little attention to.
   • 1998, Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth, Being Reflexive in Critical Educational and Social Research, →ISBN, page 20:

     A few use more drugs than we wish to know; most are wonderful parents but some underattend to their children well beyond neglect.

   • 2015, David A. Gerstner, Julien Nahmias, Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction, page 40:

     Although temporal and spatial thinking are never really alternative to each other, I've consistently tried in Touching Feeling to push back against an occupational tendency to underattend to the rich dimension of space.