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underpowered en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From underpower + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of underpower
    form of underpower

underpowered en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English powered English underpowered From under- + powered.

Meanings

  1. Having insufficient power for its operation.
    • 2023, David Shariatmadari, “‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it,” The Guardian, 2 September, 2023, Last month he [Mustafa Suleyman] was invited to the White House alongside Amazon, Microsoft and Google to sign up to an oversight regime, albeit a voluntary one. Given tech’s poor record at self-regulation, this may seem a little underpowered.
    • The old under-powered van ground its way very noisily and rather slowly up the long steep hill out of the town. 1945, Neville Shute, chapter 4, in Most Secret, New York: William Morrow & Co., page 111:
    • 1925, Stewart Edward White, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 2, […] occasionally a flap-skitter duck, making up his mind to go a-visiting, gave himself over to the serious business of flight. Flap-flap-flap, skitter, skitter, skitter, went he, taxi-ing along like an underpowered airplane, leaving behind him incredible churnings of wake.
  2. Not powerful enough.
    • Wizards are underpowered even though they start off with two magic spells.

Forms

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more underpowered Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most underpowered Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

OP · overpowered

Translations (5)

es infrapoderoso (Translations) · nb undermotorisert (Translations) · nn undermotorisert (Translations) · es subpotenciado (Translations) · it sottopotenziato (Translations)