| understatement | (noun) a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | - |
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| understeer | (noun) when a car steers less than (under) the amount commanded by the driver. | - |
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| understructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure |
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| understudy | (noun) an actor able to replace a regular performer when required | Synonyms: standby |
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| undersurface | (noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: bottom, underside |
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| undertaker | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, mortician |
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| undertaking | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, task |
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| (noun) the trade of a funeral director | - |
| undertide | (noun) a current below the surface of a fluid | Synonyms: undercurrent |
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| undertone | (noun) a pale or subdued color | Synonyms: tinge |
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| (noun) a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning | Synonyms: undercurrent |
| (noun) a quiet or hushed tone of voice | - |
| undertow | (noun) the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore | Synonyms: sea-poose, sea-purse, sea-puss, sea purse, sea puss |
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| (noun) an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling | - |
| undervaluation | (noun) too low a value or price assigned to something | - |
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| underwear | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underclothing |
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| underwing | (noun) moth having dull forewings and brightly colored hind wings | - |
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| underwood | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, undergrowth |
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| underworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol |
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| (noun) the criminal class | - |
| underwriter | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, insurer |
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| (noun) a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities | Synonyms: investment banker |
| (noun) an agent who sells insurance | Synonyms: general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker |
| undesirability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that should be avoided | - |
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| undesirable | (noun) one whose presence is undesirable | - |
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| wounded | (noun) people who are wounded | Synonyms: maimed |
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