verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment. ambitransitive

   "Even outside the Anglo-Saxon world, underperforming public companies have become vulnerable to hostile takeover."

2. 2
   perform too rarely wordnet
3. 3
   perform less well or with less success than expected wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

underachieveunderachieve

Antonyms

All antonyms

exceloverperform

Example

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"Even outside the Anglo-Saxon world, underperforming public companies have become vulnerable to hostile takeover."

Etymology

From under- + perform.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.