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Relatively light
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underweight
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy , scrawny , skinny , weedy ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Underweight is a term describing a person whose body weight is considered too low to be healthy. The definition usually refers to people with a body mass index (BMI) of under 18.5 or a weight 15% to 20% below that normal for their age and height group.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1899, from under - + weight .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a premature, underweight baby ▪ The doctor says that I'm underweight and has put me on a special diet. ▪ Women who consume large amounts of caffeine are more likely to give birth to underweight babies. EXAMPLES FROM ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight. 2 Not too heavy for an intended purpose. 3 (context finance English) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests. n. The state or quality of being #Adjective. v 1 (context transitive ...
Usage examples of underweight.
The bespeckled, pimply-faced, overweight, underweight, dateless, womanless, goofiest of the goofy, were the undisputed, unchallenged kings of the entire freaking Valley!
Back in Cawker City, Kansas, he was the kid who went out for football when he was fifteen pounds underweight, ran for class president against the biggest hotshot in school and asked the most popular girl to the prom.
Ruth van Cleve hails from Braintree on the South Shore, is many kilos underweight, wears brass-colored lipstick, and has dry hair teased out in the big-hair fashion of decades past.