Home › Words › U › undertimeundertime/ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/undertime means to measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, undertime ranks #16,733 of 42,747 for Qualifying.undertime is pronounced /ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/.EtymologyFrom under- + time.verbTo measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.To underexpose.nounThe time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities.The later part of the day; afternoon; undertide.e.g.“He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.” — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).