UNDERACHIEVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does underachieve mean? 

• UNDERACHIEVE (verb)
  The verb UNDERACHIEVE has 1 sense:

1. perform less well or with less success than expected

  Familiarity information: UNDERACHIEVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERACHIEVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they underachieve    ... he / she / it underachieves   
Past simple: underachieved   
Past participle: underachieved   
-ing form: underachieving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perform less well or with less success than expected

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

underachieve; underperform

Context example:

My stocks underperformed last year

Hypernyms (to "underachieve" is one way to...):

do; perform (get (something) done)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

underachievement (poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests))

underachiever (a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates)