Definition of underweight
: weight below normal, average, or requisite weight
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On Tuesday, Snapchat's lead underwriter Morgan Stanley downgraded Snap from equal weight to underweight and cut its price target to $16 from $28.
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First Known Use of underweight
1596
Definition of underweight
: weighing less than the normal or requisite amount
Examples of underweight in a Sentence
the long illness left him frail and underweight
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His German shepherd Nala was found abandoned and severely underweight in an apartment in Azusa after the residents left.
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America Inc is similarly underweight in the rest of Asia, but there is much less fighting talk about South Korea or Japan.
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The report relies on data mostly from 2016, the most recent available, on 16 indicators of well-being, from the highest education level attained by their parents to the percentage of underweight infants to how many teens abuse drugs and alcohol.
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In this study, people with BMIs between 22 and 23 had the lowest risk for cardiovascular disease events (e.g. heart attacks), and those with BMIs of 18.5 or lower (classified as underweight) had a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
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The felines were found in poor shape, lethargic, underweight and dehydrated.
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Senior investigators with the county district attorney's office testified that doctors and medical records showed some of the children were severely malnourished and had muscle wasting, with some adult children being 32 pounds underweight.
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After two months of high-calorie formula, J.D., underweight at birth, grew rounder and started to flash a charming smile.
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The reality is that the Italian bond market is just too big and Italian bonds too large a component of benchmark indexes for major insurers and pension funds to be able to risk remaining too underweight for long.
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First Known Use of underweight
1675
underweight Synonyms
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big, considerable, extensive, goodly, great, handsome, huge, hulking, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), large, largish, massive, overscale (or overscaled), oversize (or oversized), sizable (or sizeable), substantial, super, voluminous, whacking;
Related Words
bantam, diminutive, little, minute, puny, small, smallish, tiny, undersized (also undersize), wee;
UNDERWEIGHT Defined for English Language Learners
underweight
Definition of underweight for English Language Learners
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: weighing less than the normal or expected amount : too light
UNDERWEIGHT Defined for Kids
Definition of underweight for Students
: weighing less than what is normal, average, or necessary
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of underweight
: weighing less than the normal amount for one's age, height, and build
- underweight children
- underweight adults typically have a body mass index of less than 18.5
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