What does underpowered mean?
Underpowered means simple past and past participle of underpower.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
simple past and past participle of underpower.
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.
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.
Wizards are underpowered even though they start off with two magic spells.
Use underpowered when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Underpowered means simple past and past participle of underpower.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include overpowered, OP.
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.
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