underweight
Adjective
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Adjective
underweight
- Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
- 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.
- Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
- The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
- (finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
- The fund is underweight in mining.
- 2011, Murdoch, S. Foreigners back for Aussie stocks ↗, The Australian
- "It's a long-run trend of foreign investors -- typically being underweight the banking sector in Australia," Mr Baker said.
- (of low weight) overweight
- (not too heavy) overweight
- Russian: недове́шенный
underweight
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being underweight.
- 1996, United States Institute of Medicine Committee on Scientific Evaluation of WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria, WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment, National Academies Press, ISBN 978-0-309-05385-3, page 110,
- Underweight reflects the body’s thinness, but the term does not necessarily imply the nature and causes of underweight.
- 1996, United States Institute of Medicine Committee on Scientific Evaluation of WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria, WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment, National Academies Press, ISBN 978-0-309-05385-3, page 110,
- (countable) An underweight person.
- (state or quality) overweight
- (underweight person) overweight
- Russian: недове́с
underweight (underweights, present participle underweighting; past and past participle underweighted)
- (transitive) To underestimate the weight of.
- (transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
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