Word.ws English Dictionary

underreaching

underreaching is the present participle and gerund of underreach.

Meaning of underreach

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.
    • If anything, she is underreaching with “Women From Antwerp in November, 2007,” which appears on a band of five relatively small screens.2008 April 26, Roberta Smith, “Levitation and Smoking: Signature Images in Video Works”, in New York Times

Questions about underreaching

What is underreaching the present participle and gerund of?
Underreaching is the present participle and gerund of underreach.

Words near underreaching in the dictionary

  1. underrates
  2. underrating
  3. underreach
  4. underreached
  5. underreaches
  6. underreaching
  7. underreact
  8. underreacted
  9. underreacting
  10. underreaction
  11. underreactions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: underreaching (page history and authors); underreach (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “underreaching.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/underreaching. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.