Definition of Underneath

Underneath

Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.

Under; beneath; below.

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Underneath Quotations

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Johnny Depp

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.
Dolly Parton

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Marian Anderson

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
Ani DiFranco

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino

Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he'd put little bushes and if you didn't look to close, it looked like snow!
Rod Steiger

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
Christian Bale

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.
Chris Christie

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
Naomi Campbell

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.
Maury Povich

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.
Steve Guttenberg

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.
Sara Blakely

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
Mike Wallace

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
Brendan Fraser

And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.
John Sexton

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
Carly Simon

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
Leslie Fiedler

I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.
Regina King

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
Jay Roach

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.
Bryan Ferry

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
Iris Chang

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.
Phil Lesh

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.
Roone Arledge

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Underneath Translations

underneath in Afrikaans is onder, onderaan
underneath in Danish is derunder
underneath in Dutch is daarbeneden, beneden, onder
underneath in French is dessous, au dessous de
underneath in German is unterhalb, unter
underneath in Italian is sotto
underneath in Latin is subter supter
underneath in Norwegian is ned
underneath in Portuguese is abaixo, debaixo de
underneath in Spanish is abajo, debajo

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