Definition for Underweight:

• Situation that has arisen when a portfolio's investment are lower in proportion to the financial market's share of capitalisation. Opposite of overweight.

Synonyms for Underweight:

• adj.

  •scrawny (adjective)
  • more undernourished,
  • under weight,
  • most undernourished,
  • more skin-and-bones,
  • most skin and bones,
  • most skin-and-bones,
  • scraggier,
  • more skin and bones,
  • under-nourished,
  • under-weight,
  • under nourished.
  •skinny (adjective)
  • like rail,
  • more skin-and-bone,
  • more malnourished,
  • most skin and bone,
  • skin and bone,
  • most malnourished,
  • more skin and bone,
  • most skin-and-bone.
  •thin (adjective)
  • shadow,
  • starved,
  • anorectic,
  • skeleton,
  • stringbean.

• n.

  •
  • anorexic,
  • be (all) skin and bone(s).
  •gaunt (noun)
  • undersized.
  •underweight (noun)
  • lean.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • gangling,
  • rangy,
  • gawky,
  • emaciated,
  • gangly,
  • gaunt,
  • lanky,
  • cadaverous,
  • skeletal,
  • slightly built,
  • pinched.
  •
  • puny,
  • spectral,
  • angular,
  • slight,
  • stringy.

Paraphrases for Underweight:

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    weight.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    weight.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    weighty.

Antonyms for Underweight:

• adj.

  • thin
    chubby, thick, fat, plump.
  • Other antonyms:
    extensive, big, king-size, leaden, cumbersome, hefty, whacking, goodly, heavy, overweight, largish, massive, super, huge, jumbo, voluminous, sizable, ponderous, oversize, weighty, hulking, handsome, considerable, bulky, great, substantial, unwieldy, large.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    full, inspissate, rich, thicken.

Underweight Sentence Examples:

• Even though the baby was underweight and had violet shadows under her blue eyes, she looked healthier than most babies they saw.

• They will usually be found to be underweight and to be nursing some thought with regard to their digestion, or some supposed idiosyncrasy towards food that is keeping them below the normal weight for their height.