to underperform
20
5.3
- verb
- /ˌʌndərpərˈfɔrm/
:
rendir menos de lo esperado
- They said I was underperforming.
- underperforming students
- underperforming schools
- historically underperforming
Tesla stock obviously has underperformed a lot of stocks over the last year.
- Tesla stock obviously has underperformed a lot of stocks over the last year.
- So who is buying these things if they're overpriced and underperforming and lack flexibility?
- AT&T; has underperformed the market and its peers for over a decade.
- In Iowa, he underperformed by two points.
- It was just that I knew on that day of all days, I had underperformed.
- We're living in a time when we are allowing our brains to be trained to underperform.
- When taxes are taken into account, dividend paying stocks tend to underperform non dividend paying stocks.
- The impetus for the creation of charter schools really was a concern for the kids who were stuck in inner City Schools that were incredibly underperforming.
- And all of a sudden injuries hit, you go into a slump, you know, you just have a bad road trip and then like you're, you're way underperforming.
- An achiever or someone that underperforms on their potential.
- When bond, when stocks underperformed, either short term or long term bonds.
- When one option underperforms, if you have more than one option, how about that?
- Like I was telling CJ, when something doesn't feel good to us, we underperform based off the feeling by yourself.
- His father, you know, thinks that that he's, you might say, underperforming, you know, as, as in a moral sense.
Examples
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Ms. Kendrick is a certified special education teacher in an underperforming high school.
Academic text (2014) -
Although Grant Street was able to achieve the goal of creating a community, students still underperformed in reading.
Academic text (2013) -
After all, why should we put students into situations where they are more likely to underperform?
Academic text (2006) -
Research shows that in general, fund investors underperform the funds they invest in, and they do this by chasing returns.
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But the more important point is that China is seriously underperforming economically.
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Tesla stock obviously has underperformed a lot of stocks over the last year.
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The increasing number of low-performing or underperforming students only serves to exacerbate this problem.
Academic text (2013) -
When test results are good, it is because educators functioned effectively; when results lag, it is because educators underperformed.
Academic text (2015) -
Despite this need for STEM literacy, students with disabilities have consistently underperformed in STEM coursework (AccessSTEM, 2007).
Academic text (2013) -
The team has consistently underperformed in comparison to their rivals this season.
Synonyms
492
1.0
Fail to do what someone hoped for
70
2.8
To not keep up with others or a schedule
64
3.9
Fail to reach the level people expect
25
4.4
To not reach the level people expect
1
5.5
Do less well than expected or than they can
1
6.0
Fail to reach what is needed or expected
1
6.3
Fail to reach a target by falling short
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Underperform is built from the parts under- 'below' and perform 'to carry out' or 'to do well'. So to underperform is to do 'below' the level people expect — to do worse than required.