lightweight

1. 1.

   weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use

   “a lightweight fabric”

   “lightweight wood”

   Similarlight
2. 2.

   having no importance or influence

   “a lightweight intellect”

   Similarunimportant

Other forms of lightweight

plural

lightweights·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lightweight

What does lightweight mean?

lightweight means "a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lightweight?

lightweight has 2 syllables: ligh-tweight. The stress falls on "ligh". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪˈtweɪt/.

What is another word for lightweight?

Close synonyms include whippersnapper, jackanapes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lightweight a common word?

lightweight is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.