underwhelmとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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underwhelm (third-person singular simple present underwhelms, present participle underwhelming, simple past and past participle underwhelmed)

1. To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.
   • 2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.

反意語

• overawe, overwhelm

参考

• anticlimax
• damp squib

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