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

Most important, too, was to get funding and resources to more underserved areas where kids are at risk. — Bridget Knowles, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026

That one-on-one experience, combined with her corporate background as a Walmart buyer and sales leader, revealed to de Jong an underserved market. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 24 July 2026

Fellow travel startup Klook, for its part, focuses on experiences, which Shaam thinks is underserved. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 July 2026

When financial barriers discourage these students from entering medicine, patients in underserved communities ultimately pay the price. — Gauri Gurumurthy, STAT, 24 July 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