UNDEREXPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does underexpose mean? 

• UNDEREXPOSE (verb)
  The verb UNDEREXPOSE has 2 senses:

1. expose to too little light

2. expose insufficiently

  Familiarity information: UNDEREXPOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDEREXPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they underexpose    ... he / she / it underexposes   
Past simple: underexposed   
Past participle: underexposed   
-ing form: underexposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expose to too little light

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

The film is underexposed, so the image is very dark

Hypernyms (to "underexpose" is one way to...):

expose (expose to light, of photographic film)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

overexpose (expose to too much light)

Derivation:

underexposure (the act of exposing film to too little light or for too short a time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Expose insufficiently

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

The child was underexposed to language

Hypernyms (to "underexpose" is one way to...):

expose (expose or make accessible to some action or influence)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

overexpose (expose excessively)