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I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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Meaning of "understudied" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDERSTUDIED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDERSTUDIED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Understudied is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb understudied in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO UNDERSTUDIED

PRESENT

Present
I understudy
you understudy
he/she/it understudies
we understudy
you understudy
they understudy
Present continuous
I am understudying
you are understudying
he/she/it is understudying
we are understudying
you are understudying
they are understudying
Present perfect
I have understudied
you have understudied
he/she/it has understudied
we have understudied
you have understudied
they have understudied
Present perfect continuous
I have been understudying
you have been understudying
he/she/it has been understudying
we have been understudying
you have been understudying
they have been understudying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I understudied
you understudied
he/she/it understudied
we understudied
you understudied
they understudied
Past continuous
I was understudying
you were understudying
he/she/it was understudying
we were understudying
you were understudying
they were understudying
Past perfect
I had understudied
you had understudied
he/she/it had understudied
we had understudied
you had understudied
they had understudied
Past perfect continuous
I had been understudying
you had been understudying
he/she/it had been understudying
we had been understudying
you had been understudying
they had been understudying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will understudy
you will understudy
he/she/it will understudy
we will understudy
you will understudy
they will understudy
Future continuous
I will be understudying
you will be understudying
he/she/it will be understudying
we will be understudying
you will be understudying
they will be understudying
Future perfect
I will have understudied
you will have understudied
he/she/it will have understudied
we will have understudied
you will have understudied
they will have understudied
Future perfect continuous
I will have been understudying
you will have been understudying
he/she/it will have been understudying
we will have been understudying
you will have been understudying
they will have been understudying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would understudied
you would understudied
he/she/it would understudied
we would understudied
you would understudied
they would understudied
Conditional continuous
I would be understudying
you would be understudying
he/she/it would be understudying
we would be understudying
you would be understudying
they would be understudying
Conditional perfect
I would have understudied
you would have understudied
he/she/it would have understudied
we would have understudied
you would have understudied
they would have understudied
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been understudying
you would have been understudying
he/she/it would have been understudying
we would have been understudying
you would have been understudying
they would have been understudying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you understudy
we let´s understudy
you understudy
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to understudy
Past participle
understudied
Present Participle
understudying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDERSTUDIED

understandably
understander
understanding
understandingly
understate
understated
understatedly
understatement
understeer
understock
understood
understorey
understory
understrapper
understrapping
understrata
understratum
understrength
understudies
understudy

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDERSTUDIED

able-bodied
bandied
bloodied
buddied
caddied
candied
disembodied
eddied
embodied
full-bodied
muddied
parodied
steadied
studied
tidied
toadied
unremedied
unsteadied
unstudied
wide-bodied

Synonyms and antonyms of understudied in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «understudied» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDERSTUDIED

Find out the translation of understudied to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of understudied from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «understudied» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

充分研究
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

understudied
570 millions of speakers

English

understudied
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

understudied
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دراسة سلوكه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

изученной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pouco estudado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

understudied
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peu étudié
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kurang memahami
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

under
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

代役
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

파악 하였다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Understudied
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

understudied
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

understudied
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मर्यादित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

örüntüsü oldukça
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poco studiato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

understudied
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вивченої
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

understudied
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μελετημένο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

understudied
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

understudied
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

studerte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of understudied

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERSTUDIED»

The term «understudied» is regularly used and occupies the 66.089 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERSTUDIED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «understudied» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «understudied» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about understudied

EXAMPLES

2 QUOTES WITH «UNDERSTUDIED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word understudied.
1
Robert Englund
I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
2
Donna Murphy
I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERSTUDIED»

Discover the use of understudied in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to understudied and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement: 2nd Edition
As their name suggests, despite their huge importance, understudied crops have so far received little attention from the scientific community. Due to lack of genetic improvement, these crops produce inferior yield in terms of quality and quantity.
S. Mohan Jain, D. S. Brar, 2009
2
Women's Health and the World's Cities
This discussion group addressed the diversity of understudied or underrepresented groups in research and the unique configuration of risk and protective factors found in particular populations of women. The participants considered such ...
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, 2011
3
Counseling Widowers
Given that widowers, as a group, are understudied (Thompson, 1998), it should come as little sur prise that many subgroups of widowers have received little attention from researchers. In this chapter I will examine widowers who belong to  ...
Jason M. Troyer, 2014
4
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
Others are Charles Del Todesco, the Resident Manager, who is being understudied by a Kenya; Sog Nam Suk, a Korean Chef, who is also being understudied by a Kenyan; Lewing Fat is a Chinese Chef who is being understudied by a ...
5
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Introduction. An. Understudied. Presence. and. Legacy. For three hundred and fifty years, Muslim men, women, and children, victims of the general insecurity that the Atlantic slave trade and the politico-religious conflicts in West Africa fostered, ...
Sylviane A. Diouf, 1998
6
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: Hybridity, ...
Andrew Johnson, Understudied (pink), 2001 George W. Bush has been described as anti-semantic. Language isn't the only element understudied in this Nature Morte series featuring an AZT cocktail. Understudied (Venetian red), 1998 Each ...
Jonathan P. Harris, 2003
7
Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication
... increase in empirical articles and scholarly review chapters (e.g., Harwood, Rittenour, & Lin, in press), and special issues in academic journals, the GP-GC relationship is still relatively understudied compared to other family relationships.
Kory Floyd, Mark T. Morman, 2013
8
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Social Anxiety Disorder
Understudied. Contexts. and. Populations. Much of the research on SAD focuses on individuals seeking treatment, respondents from the community, or student samples. In this final section, we consider the unique presentation of SAD in ...
Justin W. Weeks, 2014
9
Bridging the Gap Between Practice and Research:: Forging ...
Just as research findings have been underutilized in the treatment community, there are treatment approaches that have been understudied by the research community. In committee roundtables providers said they needed practical, relevant ...
Sara Lamb, Merwyn R. Greenlick, Dennis McCarty, 1998
10
The Quest for the National Interest: A Methodological ...
At the same time, the "demand side" of the EU enlargement process remains understudied. The scholarly literature leaves many questions pertaining to the acceptability and desirability of the EU membership for the neighbouring countries ...
Petr Drulák, Mats Braun, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERSTUDIED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term understudied is used in the context of the following news items.
1
An ally for the understudied Y chromosome
Determined to contribute to an understudied field, he has delved into answering an enormous question: How do genes in the Y chromosome that are active ... «MIT News, Aug 15»
2
'Understudies': Showcasing an Often Thankless Position
The subject of the Web series “Understudies” is a topic that co-creator Elisabeth Gray knows all too well; she understudied for “Game of Thrones” actor Emilia ... «Back Stage, Jun 15»
3
Threatened Lynx Are Understudied by Scientists: Report
Lynx and other big cats belonging to the family Felidae are currently threatened with habitat loss and fragmentation, and yet these animals are largely ... «Nature World News, Mar 15»
4
Threatened felids are understudied by researchers, according to report
The Andean mountain cat (Leopardus jacobita) is one of the most endangered felids in the world. Credit: Wikipedia. Almost half of the 36 species of felids that ... «Phys.Org, Mar 15»
5
Unseen keys to Delaware Bay
... researcher Jonathan Cohen is assembling a comprehensive directory of the zoo plankton of the Delaware Bay because they are a critical, yet understudied, ... «The News Journal, Feb 15»
6
Connecting to Philanthropy: The understudied behaviors of grant …
DFW members were eager to hear about the understudied behaviors of both nonprofits and grantmakers. Jim Marks from United Way of Greater Milwaukee was ... «BizTimes.com, Jan 15»
7
After 10 years as understudy, Jonathan Smoots puts on Scrooge's …
Jonathan Smoots understudied the role of Scrooge in the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's annual production of "A Christmas Carol" for 10 years without once ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dec 14»
8
NIH launches new program to find potential drug targets
The IDG program is designed to address this gap by supporting research of understudied genes in four important druggable gene families: nuclear receptors, ... «National Institutes of Health, Jul 14»
9
Signature's 'Revenge of the Understudies': Give them a spotlight and …
Once more, an open call went out to local performers who understudied roles during the Signature season. The resulting cast list reads like a cross-section of ... «Washington Post, Jul 14»
10
Exploding Head Syndrome a Real, but Understudied Sleep Disorder
An unusual sleep disorder known as exploding head syndrome is under researched and merits more study, according to Washington State University ... «Nature World News, May 14»

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