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Weighing less than is normal, healthy, or required.
Insufficiency of weight.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
1. weighing less than is average, expected, or healthy
2. (Stock Exchange) 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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un•der•weight(adj. ˈʌn dərˈweɪt; n. ˈʌn dərˌweɪt)
1. weighing less than is usual or proper.n.
2. deficiency in weight below a standard or requirement.
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|Adj.||1.||underweight - being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"|
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
adjective skinny, puny, emaciated, undernourished, skin and bone (informal), undersized, half-starved, underfed Nearly a third of the children were severely underweight.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
underweight[ˌʌndəˈweɪt] ADJ → de peso insuficiente
to be underweight [person] → pesar menos de lo debido
she's 20lb underweight → pesa 20 libras menos de lo que debiera
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
[person] → maigre; [infant, newborn] → en sous-poids
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
n. falta de peso, peso deficiente; bajo de peso; de peso insuficiente.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
underweightadj con bajo peso, por debajo del peso normal
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.