underweight

(noun, adjective, verb)

adjective

1. being very thin

Similar word(s): lean, thin, boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy

Sentences with underweight as an adjective:

- He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.

- He's thirty pounds underweight.

- The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.

- The fund is underweight in mining.

noun

1. The state or quality of being underweight.

verb

1. (transitive) To underestimate the weight of.

2. (transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.