Usually means: Lower than healthy body weight.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word underweight:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. underweight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. underweight: Merriam-Webster
  3. underweight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. underweight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. underweight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. underweight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Underweight, underweight: Wordnik
  8. underweight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. underweight: Wiktionary
  10. underweight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. underweight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. underweight: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. underweight: Dictionary.com
  14. underweight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. underweight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Underweight (stock market), Underweight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. underweight: Rhymezone
  18. underweight: FreeDictionary.org
  19. underweight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. underweight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. underweight: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Underweight: Investopedia
  4. Underweight: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underweight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. underweight: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. underweight: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Underweight: Sports Definitions

(Note: See underweighting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
adjective:  Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
adjective:  (finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
noun:  (uncountable) The state or quality of being underweight.
noun:  (countable) An underweight person.
noun:  (countable, finance) An underweight investment.
verb:  (transitive) To underestimate the weight of.
verb:  (transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
verb:  (transitive, finance) To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.

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