Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of less than normal or sufficient size.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of a size less than common or below a standard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of a size less than is common.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective below the usual or expected size

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective smaller than normal for its kind

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Examples

  • "All of the people who may be called undersized always do one thing," Mr. Seay said.

    Diminutive Rookie Chases NFL Dream 2010

  • Although the Alpine Corps, as a general thing, contain the largest and strongest men in the French Army, yet the average French soldier may be termed undersized when compared with the military of either England or

    Revenge! Robert Barr 1881

  • A tree four feet in diameter is called undersized in these woods; and so skillful are the wood-choppers that they can make the largest giant of the forest fall just where they want it, or, as they say, they "drive a stake with the tree."

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

  • Some of you old timers may recall another undersized, high-motor defensive linemen West Virginia once pulled out of Virginia that went on to have a great career.

    MSNsportsNET.com Featured Content 2009

  • Seattle's unit was hit hard with the loss of Pro Bowl MLB Lofa Tatupu to a torn left pectoral muscle in Oct. David Hawthorne (6-0, 240), Tatupu's replacement, is a hard hitter but he's undersized, which is why he wasn't drafted.

    JSOnline.com 2009

  • One memory I have of Vic that I really love and I don't, I can't pinpoint it in time, but he often played a kind of undersized essentially acoustic guitar that almost look like a toy guitar because that was part of his being paralyzed was that he couldn't really handle a big one.

    In Memoriam: Sweet, Sad Rocker Vic Chesnutt 2010

  • SHORTCOMINGS: Like many power forward prospects of NBA drafts past, West is another athlete trying to shed the "undersized" label.

    USATODAY.com 2006

  • Anomalies such as undersized genitalia, long or short arms or legs due to "glitches" causing early or late closing off of bone ends, pectus carinatum etc.

    The Smell of a Million Melted Computers Zoe Brain 2007

  • Trying to overcome the "undersized" tag, Oklahoma's Aaron

    USATODAY.com - Breaking down the power forwards 2002

  • He was about twelve when he came to them, and kind of undersized and delicate.

    Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

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