EGAVE

understeer

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The condition in which the front wheels of a car fail to follow the desired curve while cornering, instead following more of a straight-line trajectory, losing a degree of traction, and so slipping off the required line.
  2. verb The action of a car when it does not follow the desired curve while cornering. Tyre slip of the front wheels.

Similar words

oversteer overshift undershift skewing mislead underadjustment underdeviation way-sliding miscentering misclose

Often followed by

and or is in on to was

Word family

understeered understeering understeers

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