Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undersized \Un"der*sized`\, a. Of a size less than is common.
Wiktionary
a. below the usual or expected size
WordNet
adj. smaller than normal for its kind [syn: undersize]
Usage examples of "undersized".
Here was the undersized saltire, the blue and white flag of Scotland, he had bought for his father when he had stopped off for a weekend in Edinburgh on his way home from Frankfurt, just last summer.
I may be small, Vasquez, but I have more brains in my undersized head than the rest of the Supernaturalists put together.
Dobbs was almost as bad as Orr, who seemed happy as an undersized, grinning lark with his deranged and galvanic giggle and shivering warped buck teeth and who was sent along for a rest leave with Milo and Yossarian on the trip to Cairo for eggs when Milo bought cotton instead and took off at dawn for Istanbul with his plane packed to the gun turrets with exotic spiders and unripened red bananas.
Bob came back tall, lanky, grinny, and rather dumb, and he found John undersized, wiry, masterful, and rather mooney, but strong and purposeful, for a boy.
He swung round to scowl at the third midshipman, an undersized youngster who was peering through steel-rimmed spectacles at some pencilled calculations he had been making.
It turned aside for the bowlders, and also for an undersized railway-truck lying there on its back with its wheels in the air.
It had a top speed of a hundred and ten miles an hour, mushy, bargelike suspension that could in no way stabilize the car at that speed, and undersized power brakes that wouldn’t stop it either.
There was a two-tier electric fire in the cavernous bedroom my father used and an undersized convector heater in the oak panelled room where he sat at his desk in the evenings.
That would violate the Donovan's Dilettantes code of honor "Tell me, Eddie, did your kid inherit your undersized wang?
He knew how they moved, how their peculiarly restricted speech patterns sounded, how they viewed the universe out of undersized single-lensed eyes, how their digestive systems worked to process not only normal food but dead animal products as well.
To protect the defenseless baby flattops, there were nine moderate-sized destroyers and twelve sharply undersized craft called destroyer escorts, whose name correctly defined their duties.
He knew how they moved, how their pecu-liarly restricted speech patterns sounded, how they viewed the universe out of undersized single-lensed eyes, how their digestive systems worked to process not only normal food but dead animal products as well.
Welshrabbit teint, Nubian shine, nasal fossette, turfy tuft, undersized, free kirk, no age.
People were still crawling up the walk to the oddly undersized colonial porch of the funeral parlors across the street.
The Gleaners and Machine People and an undersized Grass Giant woman named Twuk tried to get something going.