underserved

adjective

un·​der·​served ˌən-dər-ˈsərvd 

: provided with inadequate service

… they then went on to practice among patients who had been previously underserved.

—Andrew Hacker

Examples of underserved in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bart argues that such promotion has a salutary social function, reaching people in underserved communities who might not otherwise be aware that they are entitled to aggressive, contingency-fee advocacy. —Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

So there remain many more questions than answers, especially about specifics of how this would, in fact, tangibly benefit the area’s underserved population. —Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2026

The award will go toward helping more than 9,000 Broward County high-school students and about 14,000 middle-schoolers from underserved communities. —Natalie La Roche Pietri, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026

Through her work at Danielle Ashley Group, Alston in 2008 co-founded First Ladies Health Initiative, a far-reaching effort that seeks to destigmatize screening for various diseases and illnesses in underserved Black and Hispanic communities. —Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1710, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for underserved

• conserved
• decurved
• deserved
• incurved
• observed
• preserved
• recurved
• reserved
• subserved
• unnerved
• unserved
• curved