underspecific

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ specific.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

underspecific (comparative more underspecific, superlative most underspecific)

1. Not specific enough.
   • 2016, Shiwali Mohan, Aaron Mininger, John Laird, “Towards an Indexical Model of Situated Language Comprehension for Cognitive Agents in Physical Worlds”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We show that exploiting diverse information sources can alleviate ambiguities that arise from contextual use of underspecific referring expressions and unexpressed argument alternations of verbs.