low-powered

1. 1.

   having little power to do work

   “a low-powered engine”

   Similarpowerless

Questions about low-powered

What does low-powered mean?

low-powered means "having little power to do work".

How many syllables are in low-powered?

low-powered has 3 syllables and divides as low--powe-red under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is low-powered a common word?

low-powered is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.