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underweight

[ adjective uhn-der-weyt; noun uhn-der-weyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

underweight

/ ˌʌndəˈweɪt /

weighing less than is average, expected, or healthy
finance
1. 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
2. (of a fund etc) disproportionately invested in this way
  pension funds have become underweight of equities

First recorded in 1590–1600; under- + weight

In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.

Women are frequently reminded, too, that Barbie would be dangerously underweight if she were a real human.

You'd think so, but there's not much evidence that exercise affects BMI enough to take you from "overweight" to "underweight".

Never mind the fact that he was 45 pounds underweight when he auditioned to play the beefy lead.

Healthier rather than over or underweight 12:18 Comment From Liz Thanks, that's really interesting!

Amid the temptations of home food, Jack had remained persistently underweight.

They are the people who are overweight and the people who are underweight.

Some of you are underweight, because you are not properly regulated so far as your meals and living is concerned.

Sometimes pupils who are underweight when they first come here begin to lose weight, and they get worried about it.

Many are undersized, underweight, rickety and diseased in body and generally of a slovenly, unmanly appearance.

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