Underweight vs. Overweight

Underweight vs. Overweight — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Underweight and Overweight

Underweightadjective

Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.

He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.He's thirty pounds underweight.The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.

Overweightadjective

(of a person) Heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

Underweightadjective

Not too heavy for an intended purpose.

The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.

Overweightadjective

Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.

Underweightadjective

(finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.

The fund is underweight in mining.

Overweightadjective

Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.
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Underweightnoun

The state or quality of being underweight.

Overweightnoun

An excess of weight.

Underweightverb

(transitive) To underestimate the weight of.

Overweightnoun

A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

Apple common stock is one of our overweights.

Underweightverb

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

Overweightverb

(transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.

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Underweightadjective

having unattractive thinness;

a child with skinny freckled legsa long scrawny neck

Overweightverb

(transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

Overweightnoun

the property of excessive fatness

Overweightadjective

usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it