underlayer

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noun

A layer that is below another layer.

Similar
substratesubstratum
OriginEnglish layer ← Middle English under- ← Old English under- →
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Meanings

noununderlayer (plural underlayers)

plural underlayers

  1. A layer that is below another layer.

    Synonyms: substrate, substratum

  2. businessA perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
  3. One who underlays.
verbunderlayer (third-person singular simple present underlayers, present participle underlayering, simple past and past participle underlayered)

present singular third person underlayers · participle present underlayering · participle past underlayered · past underlayered

  1. To form a layer beneath another

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA layer that is below another layer.

Similar
substratesubstratum
Also see
substratesubstratum

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁entér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂én
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰí
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér
  7. Proto-Germanic*under
  8. Proto-West Germanic*undar
  9. Old Englishunder-
  10. Middle Englishunder-
  11. Englishunder-
  12. Englishlayer
  13. Englishunderlayer

From under- + layer.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

underlayer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underlayer

MLA

“underlayer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underlayer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “underlayer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underlayer.

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