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underachiever::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | nonachiever, underperformer |
| Type of | educatee, pupil, student |
| Derivation | underachieve |
Examples of underachiever
underachiever
I doubt Moore, the club's perma-underachiever, will be any closer to the action.
From the expressandstar.com
Chicago's underachiever status comes down to a half-dozen interrelated deficits.
From the businessweek.com
By turns carefree and combustible, Safin has long been labeled an underachiever.
From the sacbee.com
How can you do the impossible, and then in the end, be branded an underachiever?
From the usatoday.com
That is quite a haul for a man who was once dubbed the archetypal underachiever.
From the guardian.co.uk
Still, one wonders what executive underachiever would opt for the stumpier model.
From the bloomberg.com
To Collins, Darwin is a threat only if one thinks that God is an underachiever.
From the kansas.com
Nate Fuller is a high school student in Finden, an underachiever lacking purpose.
From the denverpost.com
Smith gets kudos for benching Harris, who has been an overpaid underachiever.
From the suntimes.com
- A student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates
- (underachievement) poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests)
- Infotainment? is the third album by the band Pitchshifter, released in 1996.
- A student who underachieves by performing less well than expected
- A child whose school work is not consistent with his or her ability to learn.
- A child whose academic performance is below the level expected, based on age, grade, aptitude, achievement test scores, or potential. Underachievement is a learned behavior. Its causes may be social, emotional, or academic.
