underpowered

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of underpower form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  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 behind him incredible churnings of wake.
  2. Not powerful enough.
    — Wizards are underpowered even though they start off with two magic spells.

词形变化

more underpowered comparative most underpowered superlative

词汇关系

反义词
overpowered OP

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English underpower
English -ed
English underpowered
From underpower + -ed.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English powered
English underpowered
From under- + powered.
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