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underachiever
noun [C] /ˌʌn.də.rəˈtʃiː.vər/
/-dɚ.əˈtʃiː.vɚ/ Definition
› someone who is less successful than they should be at school or at workFailuresAccidents and disastersHigher and lower points of achievement
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- Abstaining and refraining
- Acting and acts
- Avoiding action
- Becoming better
- Cancelling and interrupting
- Competing and contending (non-sporting)
- Coping and not coping
- Delaying and wasting time
- Describing the leading position
- Efficient and effective
- Expressions telling people to hurry up
- Failing and doing badly
- Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- Hesitating
- Higher and lower points of achievement
- Hurrying and doing things quickly
- Making progress and advancing
- Making things better
- Performing a function
- Potential
- Reacting and responding
- Repeating an action
- Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- Success and achievements
- Successful (things or people)
- Surpassing in quality or number
- Taking part and getting involved
- Trying and making an effort
- Unsuccessful (people and things)
- Waiting
- Ways of achieving things
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Synonyms and related words:
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- bomb noun (FAILURE)
- cock-up noun
- collapse noun (FAILURE)
- crash noun (FAILURE)
- dead duck noun
- dead loss noun
- false start noun (PROBLEM)
- lemon noun (STUPID PERSON/THING)
- lost cause noun
- lulu noun
- mess noun (PROBLEMS)
- mess-up noun
- might-have-been noun
- miss noun (NOT HIT)
- tailspin noun
- turkey noun (FAILURE)
- undoing noun
- washout noun (FAILURE)
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