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What does underachiever mean?

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Noun
  1. One who underachieves by performing less well than expected. [from 1950s]
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The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.
He's a sort of classic underachiever who is looking after his father who has never been the same since his mother left them.
Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.
To himself, though, he remained an underachiever who never believed he had properly fulfilled his artistic or commercial potential.
Sales managers aren't likely to be impressed with this self-proclaimed underachiever.
Respect has been hard to come by for the Syracuse product, who was touted as an underachiever in college is expected to be a tweener in the pros.

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