underachievement

1. 1.

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

   Antonymsoverachievement

   Broaderperformance

Other forms of underachievement

plural

underachievements·

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 underachievement

What does underachievement mean?

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

How many syllables are in underachievement?

underachievement has 6 syllables: un-de-ra-chie-ve-ment. The stress falls on "chie".

What is the opposite of underachievement?

The recorded antonyms are overachievement.

Is underachievement a common word?

underachievement 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.