0 present participle of underachieve
1 to do less well than you could or should:
We are told that standards are not high enough, teaching is not good enough, and pupils are underachieving.
However, there is a danger of adding to the list of underachieving national strategies.
The underachieving male student is a well-known phenomenon.
Extending on this, the present study suggests that educationally underachieving young males are also more likely to father a child than their higher achieving male peers.
Nevertheless, we share the objective of tackling the problem of underachieving schools, and we are not opposed in principle to city academies.
Two other schools were judged to require special measures and one was found to be underachieving.
That programme is designed to support academically able pupils and those with talents in sport and the arts, including those who may be underachieving.
We condemn her for underachieving in school, but we should condemn ourselves for allowing her to live in such conditions.
