Underweight vs Underweigh - What's the difference?

underweight | underweigh |

As an adjective underweight

is of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.

As a noun underweight

is the state or quality of being underweight.

As a verb underweight

is to underestimate the weight of.

As a prepositional phrase underweigh is

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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

(-)

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 .

Antonyms

* (state or quality) overweight

Verb

(en verb)

To underestimate the weight of.

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

underweigh

English

Prepositional phrase

(head)

(archaic)

* {{quote-book, year=1822, author=Phillip Parker King, title=Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At dawn of day, (17th) we got underweigh and steered through the islands; at noon, we were abreast of Termination Island, the latitude of which we found to be 34 degrees 32 minutes. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=We have got some five'' or ''six of them fairly underweigh , as Jack would say, and hope the remainder will speedily trip their anchors and follow." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1884, author=A C and F T Gregory, title=Journals of Australian Explorations, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Got underweigh at 1 p.m., and stood to the south-west, under topsails, stemming a strong ebb tide to 3.30, when we came to anchor in five fathoms (sand and shells), about three miles from the western shore of the bay, Sloping Head bearing north by east five miles. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1896, author=Emily Lawless, title=The Story Of Ireland, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Many turned resolutely back, preferring rather to die than to attempt life under such new and hopeless conditions, and stern examples had to be made before the unwilling emigrants were at last fairly got underweigh . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Walter Runciman, title=Looking Seaward Again, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The captain of the Claverhouse , however, got underweigh , but before getting very far his engineer reported that the hot-well cover had broken in two. }}