fall short of

1. 1.

   fail to satisfy, as of expectations, for example

   Antonymssatisfy

Questions about fall short of

What does fall short of mean?

fall short of means "fail to satisfy, as of expectations, for example".

What is the opposite of fall short of?

The recorded antonyms are satisfy.

Is fall short of a common word?

fall short of 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.