underpowered

== English == === Pronunciation === === Etymology 1 === From underpower +‎ -ed. ==== Verb ==== underpowered simple past and past participle of underpower === Etymology 2 === From under- +‎ powered. ==== Adjective ==== underpowered (comparative more underpowered, superlative most underpowered) Having insufficient power for its operation. 1925, Stewart Edward White, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 2,[1] […] 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,[3] 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. (gaming) Not powerful enough. ===== Antonyms ===== overpowered, OP ===== Translations =====