underweight

Meanings

Adjective

• Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
• Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
• Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.

Noun

• The state or quality of being underweight.
• An underweight person.

Verb

• To underestimate the weight of.
• To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.

Related

Opposite words

• overweight

Origin

• under- + weight.