undersea

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adjective

Existing, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea, that is, beneath the sea surface, inside the sea.

“Near-synonym: underwater”

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

adjectiveundersea (not comparable)
  1. not comparableExisting, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea, that is, beneath the sea surface, inside the sea.

    Near-synonym: underwater

    5 more examples

    It is not known just what action will be taken against the captain of the undersea boat.

    1920, George M. Battey, Jr., 70, 000 Miles on a Submarine Destroyer, Webb & Vary Company, page 133

    "You're right!" she cried. "I'm sure you are." Twenty reasons come back. An undersea tunnel to the little island.

    1923, The Saturday Evening Post, G. Graham, page 58

    The Sediment (SNAP-7E) Density Meter (an underwater rocket) has been developed to investigate to an ocean-bottom depth of 11 sedimentary feet. Sea Lab I, the Navy’s new undersea laboratory, complete with observation porch and garage, should become safe to operate at the 200 foot level.

    1966, Robert B. Thomas, The Old Farmer's Almanc, Yankee Pub, page 44

    The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

    2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025

    The Channel Tunnel is the longest undersea tunnel in the world, with this section being 38km (23.6 miles) long.

    2022 December 28, “The essential Eurotunnel”, in RAIL, number 973, page 59

    Synonyms: subsea, submarine, underwater

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveExisting, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea, that is, beneath the sea surface, inside the sea.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivebeneath the surface of the sea

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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. Englishsea
  13. Englishundersea

From under- + sea.

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APA

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Chicago

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