underperform
verbEtymology
From under- + perform.
- derived from *promo-✻
- derived from *frumjaną✻
- derived from *frummjan✻
- derived from parfornir
- derived from performer
- inherited from parformen
Definitions
To underachieve
To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment.
- Even outside the Anglo-Saxon world, underperforming public companies have become vulnerable to hostile takeover.
- She inhabits the prose’s terrible serenity and glacial horror — the translator’s hand never overwhelms or underperforms.
The neighborhood
- antonymoverperform
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for underperform. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA