underboostedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

underboosted (comparative more underboosted, superlative most underboosted)

1. Suffering from underboost.
   • 1961, Approach - Volume 6, Issue 8, page 39:

     Aside from the intake cycle condition described above and when rapidly decelerating the engine, a helicopter power plant can not be seriously underboosted.

2. Underpowered.
   • 1997, Road & Track - Volume 49, page 96:

     The Millenia's steering feels precise and is the most naturally weighted of the three (the Audi's felt overboosted just off center; the Volvo's, underboosted).

   • 2013, Daisy Waugh, I Don't Know Why She Bothers, →ISBN:

     They will have been driven in an overstuffed, underboosted car, to a party somewhere, sometime.

3. Insufficiently promoted.
   • 1967, Space/aeronautics - Volume 48, page 20:

     Our symbol of success is Saturn 5; the USSR is now the underboosted one.

   • 1990, Richard Curtis, Beyond the bestseller, →ISBN:

     In the publishing industry, however, most of the product goes un- or underadvertised, and even books that publishing people consider to be heavily pushed are ridiculously underboosted by the standards of most other business enterprises.