underwhelm

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.
    — The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.

词形变化

underwhelms present,singular,third-person underwhelming participle,present underwhelmed participle,past underwhelmed past

词汇关系

反义词
overawe overwhelm

词源

From under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm first recorded in the 1950s.
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