undercooked
About 0.09 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb simple past and past participle of undercook
- adjective Insufficiently cooked, so as to be unpalatable or inedible.
I can't eat this chicken – it's undercooked.
- adjective Very lightly cooked.
The broccoli was nicely undercooked.
- adjective Done with insufficient energy, enthusiasm, etc.
His stage portrayal of Hamlet was distinctly undercooked.
Similar words
underdone uncooked inedible underripe noncooked spoilt uneatable unedible incocted uncookable
Often followed by
meat pork or beef fish eggs meats chicken and
Word family
undercook undercooking undercooks
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