- underachievement
- Failure to achieve as well as one's abilities would seem to allow.
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underachievement
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Underachievement — Underachievement, Overachievement … Universal-Lexikon
underachievement — underachieve ► VERB ▪ do less well than is expected. DERIVATIVES underachievement noun underachiever noun … English terms dictionary
underachievement — noun see underachiever … New Collegiate Dictionary
underachievement — See underachieve. * * * … Universalium
underachievement — noun An achievement that is less than expected; underperformance. See Also: underachieve, underachiever … Wiktionary
Underachievement — Un|der|achieve|ment [ʌndərə tʃi:v...] das; s <zu engl. to underachieve »unter dem erreichbaren Leistungsniveau«, dies zu under »unter , Unter « u. to achieve »erreichen, erlangen«; vgl. ↑...ment> wider Erwarten schlechtes Abschneiden in… … Das große Fremdwörterbuch
underachievement — See: underachiever … English dictionary
underachievement — noun poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) (Freq. 3) • Ant: ↑overachievement • Derivationally related forms: ↑underachieve • Hypernyms: ↑performance … Useful english dictionary
Низкие учебные достижения (academic underachievement) — Н. у. д. это достижения ниже ожидаемого или прогнозируемого уровня. Традиционно, тесты IQ использовались для прогнозирования уровня достижений, а стандартизованные тесты достижений для установления критерия. Отклонение установленной величины,… … Психологическая энциклопедия
underachieve — underachievement, n. /un deuhr euh cheev /, v.i., underachieved, underachieving. 1. to perform, esp. academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one s mental ability or aptitude. 2. to perform below expectations or achieve less than… … Universalium
