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underweight
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un·der·weight  (ndr-wt)
adj.
Weighing less than is normal, healthy, or required.
n.
Insufficiency of weight.

underweight [ˌʌndəˈweɪt]
adj
1. weighing less than is average, expected, or healthy
2. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Stock Exchange) Finance
a.  having a lower proportion of one's investments in a particular sector of the market than the size of that sector relative to the total market would suggest
b.  (of a fund etc.) disproportionately invested in this way: pension funds have become underweight of equities
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.underweight - being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

underweight
adjective skinny, puny, emaciated, undernourished, skin and bone (informal), undersized, half-starved, underfed Nearly a third of the children were severely underweight.
Translations
underweight [ˌʌndəˈweɪt] ADJde peso insuficiente
to be underweight [person] → pesar menos de lo debido
she's 20lb underweightpesa 20 libras menos de lo que debiera
underweight [ˌʌndərˈweɪt] adj
[person] → maigre; [infant, newborn] → en sous-poids
[goods] → d'un poids insuffisant
underweight [ˌʌndəˈweɪt] adj (person) → sottopeso inv; (thing) → al di sotto del giusto peso


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