undersaturated
adjective
undersaturated is an adjective meaning “Insufficiently saturated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-D-E-R-S-A-T-U-R-A-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does undersaturated mean?
adjective
- 1
Insufficiently saturated
- 2
(of igneous rock) Having minerals without free silica
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce undersaturated?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-undersaturated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of undersaturated
- more undersaturated comparative
- most undersaturated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is undersaturated?
Undersaturated appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does undersaturated come from?
From under- + saturated.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).