underwhelm

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10

Definition of underwhelm

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

Words you can make from underwhelm

200+ playable · top: WHELMED (16 pts)

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