understimulate
verbEtymology From under- + stimulate.
1
To stimulate too little or infrequently; to provide with insufficient stimulation.
- Thus, as Wing and Brown (1970) observed, an understimulating "back ward" may lead to withdrawal and a lack of external social stimulation and support.1992, Robert Paul Liberman, Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation:
- Antonyms
- overstimulate