Word: underserved
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: un
der
served
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of underserve
Morphemes:
Affix: under-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Under (in any sense): insufficient, insufficiently, below what is correct; subordinate to; beneath or behind.
Affix: serve
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To usefully take the place as instead of something else.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: serviō
Language: la
Decoded: servio
Meaning: be a slave; serve
Affix: -d
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: An empty suffix, perhaps derived from the past-tense suffix above, added in some dialects to the present tense forms of some words which then add an additional -ed in the past tense.