underweight

adjective more underweight · most underweight

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

Opposite: overweight

noun underweights

1. uncountable The state or quality of being underweight. 1996, United States Institute of Medicine Committee on Scientific Evaluation of WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria, WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 110, Underweight reflects the body’s thinness, but the term does not necessarily imply the nature a
2. countable An underweight person.
3. countable 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).

Opposite: overweight

verb underweights · underweighting · underweighted

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