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Skinny vs Underweight - What's the difference?

skinny | underweight |

As adjectives the difference between skinny and underweight

is that skinny is having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful while underweight is of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.

As nouns the difference between skinny and underweight

is that skinny is the details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor while underweight is the state or quality of being underweight.

As a verb underweight is

to underestimate the weight of.

skinny

English

Adjective

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  • (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
    • Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
  • (informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
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  • Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
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    Noun

    (skinnies)
  • (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
    • She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.
  • A state of nakedness; nudity.
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  • A skinny being
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    • underweight

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
  • :He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
  • :He's thirty pounds underweight .
  • Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
  • :The suitcase is just slightly underweight ; I'll let it on the plane.
  • (finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
  • :The fund is underweight in mining.
  • * 2011 , Murdoch, S. Foreigners back for Aussie stocks, The Australian
  • *:"It's a long-run trend of foreign investors -- typically being underweight the banking sector in Australia," Mr Baker said.

    • Antonyms

    * (of low weight) overweight * (not too heavy) overweight

    Noun

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  • The state or quality of being .
  • * 1996 , United States Nutrition Risk Criteria, WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment , National Academies Press, ISBN 978-0-309-05385-3, page 110,
    • Underweight' reflects the body’s thinness, but the term does not necessarily imply the nature and causes of ' underweight .

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    * (state or quality) overweight

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To underestimate the weight of.
  • To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.