underpowered
adjEtymology From under- + powered.
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Having insufficient power for its operation.
- 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.1945, Neville Shute, chapter 4, in Most Secret, New York: William Morrow & Co., page 111:
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- 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.
- Antonyms
- overpowered, OP