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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