underweight
/ˈʌndɚwˌeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
verb
To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes."
- "He's thirty pounds underweight."
- "The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit."
- "The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane."
- "The fund is underweight in mining."
- "2011, Murdoch, S. Foreigners back for Aussie stocks, The Australian "It's a long-run trend of foreign investors -- typically being underweight the banking sector in Australia," Mr Baker said."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English weight English underweight From under- + weight.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more underweight (comparative)
most underweight (superlative)
underweights (plural)
underweights (present, singular)
underweighting (participle, present)
underweighted (participle, past)
underweighted (past)