underreach

English

Etymology

under- +‎ reach

Verb

underreach (third-person singular simple present underreaches, present participle underreaching, simple past and past participle underreached)

1. (intransitive) To reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.
   • 2008 April 26, Roberta Smith, “Levitation and Smoking: Signature Images in Video Works”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     If anything, she is underreaching with “Women From Antwerp in November, 2007,” which appears on a band of five relatively small screens.