- Types Of Speech
- You can use understaffed as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Understaffed
- A 4 syllables adjective satellite and 12 letters with the letters a, d, e, f, n, r, s, t, and u, 8 consonants, 4 vowels and 4 syllables with the middle letters st. Understaffed starts with a vowel and ends in a consonant with the starting letters u, un, und, unde, under, and the ending characters are d, ed, fed, ffed, affed, . Understaffed is also a double consonant (ff) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- Inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; "they''re rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals"
- Compound Words
- A compound word, understaffed has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are under, and staffed.
- Pig Latin
- Understaffed in Pig Latin is said as "understaffeday or understaffedway".
- Unigram
- u | n | d | e | r | s | t | a | f | f | e | d
- Bigram
- un | nd | de | er | rs | st | ta | af | ff | fe | ed
- Trigram
- und | nde | der | ers | rst | sta | taf | aff | ffe | fed
- Quadrigram
- unde | nder | ders | erst | rsta | staf | taff | affe | ffed
- Word Gram
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bare Handed | |
| Beggarly | used of sums of money so small in amount as to deserve contempt |
| Broken | physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split or legally or emotionally destroyed "a broken mirror" "a broken tooth" "a broken leg" "his neck is broken" "children from broken homes" "a broken marriage" "a broken heart" |
| Empty Handed | |
| Esurient | devouring or craving food in great quantities "edacious vultures" "a rapacious appetite" "ravenous as wolves" "voracious sharks" |
| Famished | extremely hungry "they were tired and famished for food and sleep" "a ravenous boy" "the family was starved and ragged" "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" |
| Half Starved | |
| Hapless | deserving or inciting pity "a hapless victim" "miserable victims of war" "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy "piteous appeals for help" "pitiable homeless children" "a pitiful fate" "Oh, you poor thing" "his poor d |
| Ill Fed | |
| Ill Equipped |
View all cognitive synonyms for Understaffed
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Understaffed | inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc. "they''re rather short-handed at the moment" "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals" |
View English words with the unique letters used in understaffed. Words With The Letters Adefnrstu
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Inadequate | (sometimes followed by `to'') not meeting the requirements especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job" |
Understaffed Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With U
- Ends With D
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