Definition of "underneath" []

• In or to a place beneath; below. (adverb)
• On the lower face or underside. (adverb)
• Under; below; beneath. (preposition)
• Under the power or control of. (preposition)
• Lower; under. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The company secretary inscribed his name underneath with a grand flourish."
• "The skin underneath is constantly breaking down and is very painful."
• "Portia, and engraved; but I think no one, without the label underneath, would have imagined in it even the intention of my portrait."