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单词 underground
释义

underground

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adverb

un·​der·​ground ˌən-dər-ˈgrau̇nd How to pronounce underground (audio)
1
: beneath the surface of the earth
2
: in or into hiding or secret operation

underground

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noun

ˈən-dər-ˌgrau̇nd How to pronounce underground (audio)
1
: a subterranean space or channel
2
: an underground city railway system
3
a
: a movement or group organized in strict secrecy among citizens especially in an occupied country for maintaining communications, popular solidarity, and concerted resistive action pending liberation
b
: a clandestine conspiratorial organization set up for revolutionary or other disruptive purposes especially against a civil order
c
: an unofficial, unsanctioned, or illegal but informal movement or group
especially : a usually avant-garde group or movement that functions outside the establishment

underground

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adjective

un·​der·​ground ˈən-dər-ˌgrau̇nd How to pronounce underground (audio)
1
: being, growing, operating, or situated below the surface of the ground
2
: conducted by secret means
3
a
: existing outside the establishment
an underground literary reputation
b
: existing outside the purview of tax collectors or statisticians
the underground economy
4
a
: produced or published outside the establishment especially by the avant-garde
underground movies
underground newspapers
b
: of or relating to the avant-garde underground
an underground moviemaker
an underground theater

Synonyms

Noun

  • resistance

Adjective

  • backstairs
  • behind-the-scenes
  • clandestine
  • covert
  • furtive
  • hole-and-corner
  • hugger-mugger
  • hush-hush
  • private
  • privy
  • secret
  • sneak
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • stealth
  • stealthy
  • surreptitious
  • undercover
  • underhand
  • underhanded
See all Synonyms & Antonyms

Example Sentences

Adverb They had been living underground as fugitives. Noun I've ridden on the New York subway, the Paris Metro, and the London Underground. joined the underground while still a teenager Adjective The drugs are supplied through an underground network. She loves the city's underground music scene.
Recent Examples on the Web
Adverb
It's been seven years since a cataclysmic meteor hit the Earth in Michael Matthews' Love and Monsters, mutating our planet's animals and insects into ferocious monsters, forcing humans underground into bunkers fighting for survival. Sezin Koehler, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022 In Los Angeles, for instance, officials are experimenting with roadside green spaces, where water seeps underground and into storage tanks. WIRED, 10 Sep. 2022 This unexpected discovery hints at more species yet to be found underground. ABC News, 19 Dec. 2021 Before west side work can begin in 2024, AT&T will need up to three months to move existing utilities from under the bridge to a location underground on the east side of the bridge, Novack said. Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 Lipp and her fellow researchers flushed benign viruses and dyes down toilets, and set up underground and offshore monitoring stations to watch the dyes move from the plumbing to the water. Keely Larson, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022 Whereas the original sweeps you up to soar over ethereal worlds unknown like a personal magic carpet ride, NERO’s piloting takes an immediate detour to the deeper, darker and danker underground. Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2022 To shield the detectors from unwanted radiation, physicists station them in laboratories deep inside mountains or underground in former mines. Sophia Chen, Wired, 2 Aug. 2022 This is one reason the number of abortions does not appear to have actually dropped — abortions have merely been driven underground or out of the country. Katrin Bennhold, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
Noun
Such social context tends to get obscured whenever a particular dance-music style moves from the underground to the mainstream—that is, until the backlash comes. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022 The development would include one building with 158 rental units on four floors, with underground and surface parking, as well as two seven-unit buildings with rental townhomes, according to the proposal. Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022 Taking the dance craze out of New York's gay underground and on the road, the singer vogued her way around the world on her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour in her iconic Jean Paul Gaultier cone bra. Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022 Historically, there has always been a Black underground or Black club culture. Julissa Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022 And after years of being dominated by house music and drum and bass, the city’s underground was finally embracing techno, her preferred flavor of electronic dance music. Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 Some species of fungi can store exceptional levels of carbon underground, keeping it out of the air and preventing it from heating up the Earth’s atmosphere. New York Times, 27 July 2022 The fear of spreading bubonic plague closed the underground for good in 1907 – until the mid-1960s, when Speidel’s operation reopened it. Susan Glaser, cleveland, 30 June 2022 Outside London, only one other city has any real metro system of note, while Leeds remains the biggest city in Europe without an underground or a tram network. Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, 19 June 2022
Adjective
Shifty Shafts is a meandering maze of cabins and underground tunnels. Toby Grey, BGR, 12 Sep. 2022 So Qumin enlisted a group of underground Gen Z artists with cult followings to paint the hotel’s interior and craft cocktails for the launch of China’s first Moxy hotel in Shanghai’s Hongqiao district. Grady Mcgregor, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2022 Except for overpaying for Twitter, Elon Musk is a classic contrarian, embracing electric vehicles, privately launched rockets, underground tunnels and even flamethrowers that others never considered. Andy Kessler, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022 Lane-Nott says his firm’s bots will be able to whoosh down pipes to service the exterior structure of underground tunnels without operators having to put a halt to the road or rail traffic inside. Wired, 13 Aug. 2022 On Wednesday, Oh announced $1.15 billion in spending in the coming decade to build six underground tunnels to drain rainwater and prevent future flooding. Stella Kim, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022 Civil engineers used maps of the sewage system and tidal tables to figure out when others could escape through the enormous underground tunnels without drowning. Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022 The other two went in without a problem, using a system of underground tunnels. Eldad Beck, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022 Squeeze through slot canyons, marvel at sparkling walls coated with gypsum, and meander through immense underground tunnels. Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 29 July 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

Adverb

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Adjective

1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

underground 1 of 3

adverb

un·​der·​ground ˌən-dər-ˈgrau̇nd How to pronounce underground (audio)
1
: below the surface of the earth
2
: in or into hiding or secret operation The rebels went underground.

underground

2 of 3

noun

un·​der·​ground ˈən-dər-ˌgrau̇nd How to pronounce underground (audio)
1
: subway
2
: a secret political movement or group

underground

3 of 3

adjective

un·​der·​ground ˈən-dər-ˌgrau̇nd How to pronounce underground (audio)
1
: located under the surface of the ground
underground pipes
2
: done or happening secretly
an underground revolt

underground 1 of 3

adjective

1
as in clandestine
undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others an underground operation to smuggle ancient artifacts out of the country

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • clandestine
  • undercover
  • sneak
  • covert
  • private
  • sneaking
  • stealth
  • secret
  • surreptitious
  • backstairs
  • subterranean
  • stealthy
  • furtive
  • hole-and-corner
  • sneaky
  • undisclosed
  • hidden
  • underhanded
  • underhand
  • privy
  • confidential
  • hush-hush
  • classified
  • secreted
  • behind-the-scenes
  • restricted
  • hugger-mugger
  • top secret
  • off-the-books
  • concealed
  • unexposed
  • closed-door
  • back-channel
  • off-the-record
  • unadvertised

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • public
  • open
  • overt
  • avowed
  • unrestricted
  • acknowledged
  • straightforward
  • unclassified
  • obvious
  • evident
  • plain
  • undisguised
  • manifest
  • unconcealed
  • clear
  • aboveboard
  • patent
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2
as in subterranean
being, situated, or operating beneath the surface of the earth an underground shopping mall that is part of the city's subway system

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • subterranean
  • subsurface
  • belowground

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • surface
  • aboveground

underground

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noun

as in resistance
a secret organization in a conquered country fighting against enemy forces joined the underground while still a teenager

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • resistance
  • cabal
  • conspiracy

underground

3 of 3

adverb

as in undercover

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • undercover
  • stealthily
  • clandestinely
  • secretively
  • surreptitiously
  • furtively
  • covertly
  • underhanded
  • underhand
  • sneakily
  • underhandedly
  • offstage
  • à deux
  • collusively
  • conspiratorially
  • offscreen
  • sotto voce
  • secretly
  • inwardly
  • tête-à-tête
  • backstage
  • privately
  • intimately
  • confidentially
  • in camera

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • publicly
  • openly
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