underweight (redirected from underweights)

un·der·weight  (ndr-wt)

adj.

Weighing less than is normal, healthy, or required.

n.

Insufficiency of weight.

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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

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

underweight - being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy, boney lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

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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] ADJ → de peso insuficiente
to be underweight [person] → pesar menos de lo debido
she's 20lb underweight → pesa 20 libras menos de lo que debiera

underweight [ˌʌndə^rˈweɪt] 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