Sekirov Dictionary

underweight

adjective 3
noun 3
verb 3
forms 5

adjective3

•
Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
- He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
- He's thirty pounds underweight.
•
Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
- The fund is underweight in mining.
•
Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
- The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.

noun3

•
The state or quality of being underweight.
- Underweight reflects the body’s thinness, but the term does not necessarily imply the nature and causes of underweight. — 1996
An underweight person.
•
An underweight investment.
- Further, structured managers usually attempt to hit their lower targets by relying on a relatively large number of small active deviations (i.e., overweights and underweights). — 2004

verb3

To underestimate the weight of.
•
To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.
- Although the portfolio overweights the German market, it underweights German marks. — 2009
To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.

forms

underweighted · underweighting · underweights · more underweight · most underweight

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