nonachiever

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsunderachieverunderperformer

   Broaderstudent

Other forms of nonachiever

plural

nonachievers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nonachiever

What does nonachiever mean?

nonachiever means "a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates".

How many syllables are in nonachiever?

nonachiever has 4 syllables: no-na-chie-ver. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for nonachiever?

Close synonyms include underachiever, underperformer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nonachiever a common word?

nonachiever 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.