underpowered
/ˌʌndɚpˈaʊɚd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of underpower
adj
Having insufficient power for its operation.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The old under-powered van ground its way very noisily and rather slowly up the long steep hill out of the town."
- "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."
- "Wizards are underpowered even though they start off with two magic spells."
Etymology
From underpower + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more underpowered (comparative)
most underpowered (superlative)