Word: understimulated
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: un
der
sti
mu
la
ted
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of understimulate. To stimulate too little or infrequently; to provide with insufficient stimulation.
Morphemes:
Affix: under-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently, below what is correct; subordinate to; beneath or behind.
Affix: stimulate
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To arouse an organism to functional activity.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: stimulus
Language: la
Decoded: stimulus
Meaning: goad
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.