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Synonyms & Antonyms for underweight
Synonyms: Adjective
featherlight, feathery, light, lightweight, weightless
Antonyms: Adjective
heavy, hefty, leaden, overweight, ponderous, weighty
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Examples of underweight in a Sentence
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the long illness left him frail and underweightRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
On Tuesday, Snapchat's lead underwriter Morgan Stanley downgraded Snap from equal weight to underweight and cut its price target to $16 from $28. — Krishna Thakker, Fortune, "Here’s How Many Billions Evan Spiegel Has Lost Since Snap’s IPO," 12 July 2017Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Black women in New Jersey are three-and-a-half times more likely to die from pregnancy or birth complications than their white counterparts, and their babies are at a much higher risk of being born underweight or dying before their first birthday. — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, "Cory Booker Gets Real About Reproductive Justice," 20 June 2019 The exact dose of vacuum energy, the precise mass of our underweight Higgs boson, and other anomalies must have high odds within the subset of habitable universes. — Quanta Magazine, "In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?," 3 Nov. 2014 Alaska had the nation’s lowest rate of babies born dangerously underweight in 2017, but the highest rate of child and teenage deaths, according to the latest installment of the Kids Count report that measures how children and teens are faring. — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, "Alaska ranks 45th in the nation for children’s well-being, report says," 18 June 2019 Some of them are expensive coffee-table books that weigh about 6 pounds—that’s the weight of a slightly underweight newborn. — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, "Sorry Marie Kondo—I Love Mess!," 12 Feb. 2019 More: The animals were unhealthy, many of them matted and underweight. — Deasia Paige, Detroit Free Press, "'Hobby breeder' made 108 animals live in feces in Washtenaw Co. home," 22 June 2018 Authorities said despite the boy being underweight, the rest of the family appeared well-fed. — Benjamin Brown, Fox News, "Emaciated teen living in barn was 'within a week of death,' authorities say," 20 July 2018 The latest report found that mothers in India were more likely to deliver underweight babies in households that used wood or dung as cooking fuel. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Why India’s air pollution is so horrendous," 31 Oct. 2018 The children ages 2 to 29 were mostly pale and severely underweight, they hadn't bathed for months and the house reeked of human waste. — Brian Melley, Fox News, "Prosecutor: Abused kids upbringing like 'Lord of the Flies'," 22 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'underweight.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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