underthink
verbEtymology From under- + think. Compare Old English underþenċan (“to look into, consider”).
1
To give insufficient thought or consideration to; fail to consider adequately.
- There was a new one; usually, I underthink these things.2007, Brian Haig, Man in the Middle:
- This gives us plenty of opportunity to overthink — or underthink — the problem, and this is where we really start to bollix things up.2008, Jeffrey Kluger, Simplexity:
- Antonyms
- overthink
- Derived terms
- underthinker