Adjective: underburdened
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more underburdened |
| Superlative | most underburdened |
Sample Sentences
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Tasks may be taken from the overburdened and given to the underburdened; certain tasks may be shared; some additional (new) tasks may be assigned the underburdened; perhaps employees who are overburdened can have some of their tasks simplified, combined with others, or outright eliminated. [1989, Philip C. Grant, Multiple Use Job Descriptions, →ISBN:]
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Probably one or more of the holes was underburdened, causing an ignition of methane and coal dust. [1960, Bulletin - Issues 586-595, page 265:]
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Detonation of underburdened or overburdened explosive charges is extremely dangerous. [1984, Employment Safety and Health Guide, page 7249:]
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A blown-out shot of explosives that was stemmed with coal dust, or an underburdened shot of explosives could have ignited the coal dust. [2006, Robert E Hartley, David Kenney, Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters, →ISBN:]
Adjectives inflected like underburdened
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology