underwhelm
verbEtymology From under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm first recorded in the 1950s.
1
To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.
- The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Related terms
- anticlimax, damp squib