underachievement

Noun

Meaning

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

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Synonyms

badly inefficient underperforming underperformance lack of success academic failure low-performance academic regress educational regress failed examinations academic fail academic regression academic underperformance educational fail evidence of underperformance

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Antonyms

overachievement academic success academic performance academic achievement academic attainment academic record

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Hypernyms

performance

Related terms

underachieve underachiever

Examples

This represents an underachievement of 17,000 tonnes from the estimated second crop production objective.” Source: Internet

Squaring this degree of underachievement with the vast potential of the continent is difficult, as is the fact that, despite all indicators promising the opposite, Africa’s outings are actually getting worse. Source: Internet

The suicides, the addiction, the homelessness, the prison, the underachievement, the failure to thrive. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

underacetylated underacetylation underachieve underachiever underacinated underacknowledged