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Etymology

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under- +‎ theorized

Adjective

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undertheorized (comparative more undertheorized, superlative most undertheorized)

  1. Insufficiently theoretically studied or researched.
    • 2010, Seyed Javad Miri, chapter 3, in Reflections on the Social Thought of Allama M. T. Jafari, page 40:
      Of course, there are many undertheorized grounds that need to be reconstructed, and Allama Jafari himself confessed (Jafari 1387, 145) to various shortcomings which one may come across within his theoretical paradigm, which we have termed as primordial school of social theory.