Associations to the word «Underweight»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
UNDERWEIGHT, adjective. Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
UNDERWEIGHT, adjective. Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
UNDERWEIGHT, adjective. (finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
UNDERWEIGHT, noun. The state or quality of being underweight.
UNDERWEIGHT, verb. (transitive) To underestimate the weight of.
UNDERWEIGHT, verb. (transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
Dictionary definition
UNDERWEIGHT, adjective. Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.