under-attended

comparative more under-attended · superlative most under-attended

1. Alternative form of underattended.
   1. Attended by too few people.

      Surely, this was a lovely event on the whole. Perhaps a tad under-attended, maybe a wee bit unstructured.

      2015, Michele Fitzpatrick, The Women's Center, →ISBN

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      Most kids from Brixton were sent to Kingsdale School in the relatively posh area of Sydenham, as the residents there tended to send their children to private – and public – schools, leaving local schools relatively under-attended.

      2010, Nigel Cawthorne, The World's Most Evil Gangsters, →ISBN

      The following spring Leadbelly, in his only European appearance, played several under-attended but warmly received concertsin the samecity; a young Alexis Korner made the pilgimage from London and it spurred him into becoming a busy blues pilgim in Britain.

      2014, Michael Spörke, Big Mama Thornton: The Life and Music, →ISBN

   2. Given too little attention.

      It may be insufficient to provide health care and employment to the family caregiver if employment outside the house means that children are under-attended.

      2011, Linda L. Emanuel, S. Lawrence Librach, Palliative Care, →ISBN

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      But the king shouldn't complain about long hours and tiresome work as chief supervisor, it is those of Israel who are actually so exhausted that their farms are being left under-attended.

      2005, William H. Bicksler, Commentary on Ecclesiastes, →ISBN, page 23

      The diasporic involvement got its expression, space and relevance within the context of unattended or under-attended tasks by the principal developmental actors such as the state, market, and constitutional bodies of village governance.

      2015, Md Mizanur Rahman, Tan Tai Yong, International Migration and Development in South Asia, →ISBN, page 173

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of under-attend