UNDERWEIGHT
Underweight
Underweight is a term describing a human whose body weight is considered too low to be healthy. The definition usually refers to people with a body mass index of under 18.5 or a weight 15% to 20% below that normal for their age and height group.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Underweight
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underweight
Noun
- The state or quality of being underweight.
Verb
- To underestimate the weight of.
- To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
Adjective
- Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
- He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
- He's thirty pounds underweight.
- Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
- The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
- Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
- The fund is underweight in mining.
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