underachiever
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- n a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates
- Not exactly an underachiever, but Shulman has set himself the challenge of becoming the first Rabbi ever to serve in Congress and the first blind congressman since 1935.
- And yet, because success was never enough among those brothers, Ted Kennedy cast the shadow of an underachiever.
- Bart Simpson is an underachiever "and proud of it," as a million T shirts read, back when The Simpsons began its run on Fox and he was the first fad of the '90s.