underfull

English

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Etymology 1

From under- +‎ full.

Adjective

underfull (comparative more underfull, superlative most underfull)

1. Not full enough; not filled to available capacity.
   • 2012, Bernice S. Lipkin, LaTeX for Linux: A Vade Mecum, page 68:

     Commands forcing a figure in a particular place may create underfull pages […]

   • 2014, Inge Li Gørtz, R. Ravi, Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2014: 14th Scandinavian Symposium:

     A bucket is underfull when it contains less than m/2 points. We allow at most one underfull bucket in a group. If there are two underfull buckets in a group, we merge them […]

Etymology 2

From under- +‎ full house.

Noun

underfull (plural underfulls)

1. (poker) A full house that is beaten by someone else's full house.
   • 2008, Jeff Hwang, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 5:

     […] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead.

Antonyms

• overfull

Hypernyms

• full house
• hand (poker sense)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

under +‎ -full, partially from German wundervoll; cognate with English wonderful

Adjective

underfull (neuter singular underfullt, definite singular and plural underfulle)

1. supernatural, miraculous
2. awe-inspiring, wondrous, wonderful

Synonyms

• vidunderlig
• mirakuløs

References

• “underfull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “underfull” in The Ordnett Dictionary