underinflated
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Not filled with enough air so tires or balls feel soft
- adjective
- /ˌʌndərɪnˈfleɪtɪd/
:
desinflado
- Driving with underinflated tires can result in increased wear and reduced fuel efficiency.
- an underinflated tire
- underinflated footballs
- underinflated balls
Examples
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An underinflated tire can lead to poor handling and may cause accidents.
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So severely underinflated tires would be one way to drastically increase wheel/ground friction to force a takeoff failure.
Blog text (1) -
It's important to check your car regularly to ensure that no tires are underinflated.
Antonyms
How Inflated
Surface Forms
underinflated positive
Morphology
underinflated = inflated (transparent) = under + inflate + ed
The meaning is directly composed from the productive prefix 'under-' (insufficient) + 'inflated' (filled with air), so learners can infer 'not sufficiently inflated'.
Etymology
Underinflated combines under ('not enough') and inflate ('fill with air'). So an underinflated tire or ball is 'not filled with enough air', which is why it feels soft and works poorly.