underspecific

English

Etymology

under- +‎ specific

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:
      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.
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