Underweight

Definition: Underweight

Underweight

Adjective

1. Having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck".

Specialty Definition: Underweight

Domain	Definition
Finance	Qualifies a holding in an index fund when the proportion of that share in the portfolio is less than the proportion for that share in the calculation of the index. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. The weight of that portion of the strata overlying a coal seam at the face, which is supported by the timber or steel props. See also:nether roof; overarching weight; traveling weight b. A diamond bit, the crown of which is inset with diamonds so widely spaced that part of the crown is without cutting points and the bit cannotbe made to cut. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Underweight

Synonyms: scraggy (adj), scrawny (adj), skinny (adj), weedy (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Underweight

Specialty definitions using "underweight": BLOOD-DONOR-UNIT ASSISTANT ♦ CAVANILLESIA PLATANIFOLIA ♦ END FINDER, FORMING DEPARTMENT ♦ forming-tube selector ♦ weight tester. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Underweight

Domain	Title
Books	Teens: The Overweight, the Underweight and Getting Good Nutrition #449 (reference) The Underweight Infant, Child, and Adolescent (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Underweight

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Non-Fiction Usage: Underweight

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Use this chart to determine if your pre-pregnancy weight is normal, underweight, or overweight. (references)
		Table 3 shows whether your pre-pregnancy weight is considered underweight, normal weight, or overweight. (references)
		As the child grows older, the smallness of the skull becomes more obvious, although the entire body also is often underweight and dwarfed. (references)
Children	Philippines	According to the latest UNICEF data, at the end of 1999, 28 percent of children under age five nationwide were moderately or severely underweight. (references)
	Angola	UNICEF documented that during the period between 1995 and 2000, 42 percent of children under 5 years of age moderately were underweight and 14 percent severely were underweight. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Underweight

"Underweight" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Underweight" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	48	49,194

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Underweight

Expression using "underweight": be underweight. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Underweight

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
underweight	75
underweight child	11
toddler underweight	10
baby underweight	8
dog underweight	8
over weight and underweight	6
cat underweight	5
man underweight	4
problem underweight	3
underweight woman	3
infant nutrition program underweight	3
bmi underweight	3
kid underweight	3
teen underweight	2
infertility underweight	2
pregnancy underweight	2
state underweight united woman	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Underweight

Language		Translations for "underweight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		тегло по-ниско от нормалното. (various references)

Danish		undervægtning. (various references)

Dutch		ondervertegenwoordigd. (various references)

Farsi		کسروزن , دارای کسروزن . (various references)

Finnish		aliarvostettu. (various references)

German		Untergewicht. (various references)

Greek		λιποβαρήσ. (various references)

Hungarian		sovány (bare-boned, extenuate, gaunt, haggard, hungry, lean, meager, meagre, peaky, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin, wispy). (various references)

Italian		rappresentato per difetto. (various references)

Pig Latin		erweightunday

Russian		весящий меньше положенного веса. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji nema dovoljnu težinu. (various references)

Spanish		infraponderado. (various references)

Swedish		underviktig, undervikt, under normalvikt. (various references)

Turkish		normalden hafif. (various references)

Vietnamese		trọng lượng quá nhẹ, nhẹ cân. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Underweight

Derivations
	Words beginning with "underweight": underweights. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Underweight"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "underweight" (pronounced u"nderwā't)
4	-er w ā' t	counterweight, featherweight, paperweight, welterweight.
3	-w ā' t	actuate, antiquate, deadweight, fluctuate, heavyweight, hundredweight, middleweight, perpetuate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Underweight

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-h-i-n-r-t-u-w"
	-1 letter: unweighted.
	-2 letters: negritude, wuthering.
	-3 letters: geniture, hungered, rehinged, retinued, reunited, unweight, weighted, weighter, whitened, whitener, wintered, withered, wuthered.
	-4 letters: denture, detinue, diether, dreeing, dungier, energid, erudite, girthed, greenth, grunted, hedgier, heeding, herding, hindgut, hurting, inhered, integer, intrude, neighed, neither, redwing, reeding, rehinge, reigned, retinue, retuned, reunite, reweigh, rewiden, righted, tenured, therein, thewier, thunder, treeing.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-h-i-n-r-t-u-w"
	+1 letter: underweights.
	+2 letters: hundredweight.
	+3 letters: hundredweights.
	+4 letters: counterweighted.
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