Undercurrent meaning

ŭn'dər-kûr'ənt, -kŭr'-
A current, as of air or water, below another current or beneath a surface.
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An underlying tendency, force, or influence often contrary to what is superficially evident.
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A current, as of water or air, flowing below another or beneath the surface.
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An underlying tendency, opinion, etc., usually one that is kept hidden and not expressed openly.
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A current which flows under the surface.

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(figuratively) A tendency of feeling or opinion that is concealed rather than exposed.
  • 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao", the Guardian.
    Although the crowd was predominantly red-and-white, there was also a Romanian flavour, which these days in football terms tends to mean there is at least an undercurrent of discontent.

The meeting was pervaded with an undercurrent of dread, as the managers tried not to admit firings were looming.

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Sentence Examples

  • The Undercurrent of Modern Realism.

  • And yet, there is all through an undercurrent which runs hard against his surface verdicts, and here and there comes to expression.

  • It was a subtle shift, an undercurrent of cool energy that brushed by him, like when Sofi used her voodoo fortune-telling powers around him.

  • The "North Sea" water, of 34 to 35 pro male salinity, does not appear at the surface in the Skagerrak, except as a strip along part of the coast of Jutland, but it is always found as an undercurrent overlying the oceanic water.

  • The inflowing Baltic undercurrent carries with it herrings and other fish from the North Sea outside, and the submarine current entering the Barents Sea also carries with it such fish as plaice.

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