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Underweight

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Adjective

1. boney, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy

being very thin

Example Sentences:
'a child with skinny freckled legs'
'a long scrawny neck'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Underweight

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adjective
1. 
weighing less than is average, expected, or healthy
2. 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

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Underweight

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adjective
1. 
below the normal, desirable, or allowed weight
noun
2. 
weight that is less than needed, desired, or allowed

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Underweight

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adj.
Weighing less than is normal, healthy, or required.
n.
Insufficiency of weight.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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