undersearch

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ search.

Verb

undersearch (third-person singular simple present undersearches, present participle undersearching, simple past and past participle undersearched)

  1. To search insufficiently.
    • 1995, David Perkins, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence:
      But people undersearch far more than they oversearch: We tend to explore situations less thoroughly than our own goals recommend!
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