underachiever

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsunderperformernonachiever

   Broaderstudent

Other forms of underachiever

plural

underachievers·

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 underachiever

What does underachiever mean?

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

How many syllables are in underachiever?

underachiever has 5 syllables: un-de-ra-chie-ver. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚəˌtʃivɚ/.

What is another word for underachiever?

Close synonyms include underperformer, nonachiever. 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 underachiever a common word?

underachiever is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with underachiever?

2 words rhyme with underachiever. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.