underweight

Plural: underweights

Adjective Satellite

• being very thin

Adj

• Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
• Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
• Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.

Noun

• The state or quality of being underweight.
• An underweight person.
• An underweight investment.

Verb

• To underestimate the weight of.
• To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
• To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.

Examples

• He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
• He's thirty pounds underweight.
• The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.
• The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.

Synonyms

boney, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy

Antonyms

overweight

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