UNDERSIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undersized mean? 

• UNDERSIZED (adjective)
  The adjective UNDERSIZED has 1 sense:

1. smaller than normal for its kind

  Familiarity information: UNDERSIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERSIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smaller than normal for its kind

Synonyms:

undersize; undersized

Similar:

little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

 Context examples 

Handsome! Nobody can call such an undersized man handsome.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The condition of being undersized as a result of premature arrest of skeletal growth.

(Dwarfism, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

But the whole effect is spoiled when I look at them—at Tetralani, five feet ten in her stocking feet and weighing a hundred and ninety pounds, and at Barillo, a scant five feet four, greasy-featured, with the chest of a squat, undersized blacksmith, and at the pair of them, attitudinizing, clasping their breasts, flinging their arms in the air like demented creatures in an asylum; and when I am expected to accept all this as the faithful illusion of a love-scene between a slender and beautiful princess and a handsome, romantic, young prince—why, I can't accept it, that's all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For the life and soul of me, I cannot admire him; and, between ourselves, to see such an undersized, little, mean-looking man, set up for a fine actor, is very ridiculous in my opinion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)