Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
UNDERWEIGHT
scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
(adjective) being very thin; “a child with skinny freckled legs”; “a long scrawny neck”; “pale bony hands”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
underweight (comparative more underweight, superlative most underweight)
Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
(finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
Antonyms
• (of low weight): overweight
• (not too heavy): overweight
Noun
underweight (countable and uncountable, plural underweights)
(uncountable) The state or quality of being underweight.
(countable) An underweight person.
(countable, finance)
Antonyms
• (state or quality): overweight
• (underweight person): overweight
Verb
underweight (third-person singular simple present underweights, present participle underweighting, simple past and past participle underweighted)
(transitive) To underestimate the weight of.
(transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
Source: Wiktionary
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