underweight

Questions about underweight

What does underweight mean?

underweight means "being very thin".

How many syllables are in underweight?

underweight has 3 syllables: un-der-weight. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌweɪt/.

What is another word for underweight?

Close synonyms include scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny. 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 underweight a common word?

underweight is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with underweight?

14 words rhyme with underweight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.