Underweight
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Underweight is an adjective meaning Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
Meaning
Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
More Meanings
- Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
- (finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being underweight.
- (countable) An underweight person.
- (countable, finance) An underweight investment.
- (transitive) To underestimate the weight of.
- (transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
Example Sentences
He's thirty pounds underweight.
The fund is underweight in mining.
He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.
Word Forms
- underweights
- underweighting
- underweighted
Synonyms for underweight
Depending on context, synonyms include lean, thin, scraggy, scrawny, weedy, skinny.
Antonyms for underweight
Common opposites include overweight.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scrawny, skinny, thin, scraggy, lean, weedy.
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