underspeak
English
verb
Definitions
- To speak with understatement and/or modesty.
- To fail to say enough; to be too taciturn.
- To speak without sufficient emphasis or volume.
- To speak at the same time as and more quietly than another.
Etymology
Prefix from English speak.
Origin
English
speak
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Newspeak English
- autospeak English
- bespeak English
- bullspeak English
- cyberspeak English
- duckspeak English
- farspeak English
- forespeak English
- forspeak English
- forthspeak English
- inspeak English
- lolspeak English
- mallspeak English
- misspeak English
- newspeak English
- outspeak English
- overspeak English
- respeak English
- speak English
- speakability English
- speakable English
- speakeasy English
- speaker English
- speakest English
- speaketh English
- speakie English
- speaking English
- speako English
- speakout English
- speakworthy English
- textspeak English
- unspeak English
- upspeak English
- withspeak English
- spiikki Finnish
- speken Middle English
- newspeak Czech
- novořeč Czech
- spikka Faroese
- pük Volapük
- spikön Volapük
- piki Sranan Tongo
- speak
- speako
- inspeak
- speakie
- unspeak
- respeak
- upspeak
- speaker
- bespeak
- speakout
- speaking
- lolspeak
- speaketh
- farspeak
- speakest
- newspeak
- forspeak
- misspeak
- outspeak
- Newspeak
- mallspeak
- autospeak
- duckspeak
- speakeasy
- bullspeak
- overspeak
- withspeak
- speakable
- textspeak
- forespeak
- forthspeak
- cyberspeak
- speakworthy
- speakability