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underpowered¹

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From underpower + -ed.

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of underpower

underpowered²

adjective more underpowered · most underpowered

  1. 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
  2. Not powerful enough. Wizards are underpowered even though they start off with two magic spells.

Opposite: overpowered, OP

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adjective

Opposite: overpowered, OP

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Españolsubpotenciado, infrapoderoso
Italianosottopotenziato

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@misc{underpowered_2026,
  title = {underpowered},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/underpowered},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}