lightweight
lightweights
When an object is lightweight, it weighs much less than other similar objects. A person is a lightweight if they can't handle much — if you get full after a small meal, big eaters might refer to you as a lightweight.
Break lightweight apart — light + weight — and you see its definition right there in its root words. Someone who is called a lightweight is either a professional boxer who weighs under 135 pounds or he's someone with little importance or ability. When a company is looking to make layoffs, it's the lightweight employees, or those who just aren't important to the business that often get axed first.
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weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use“a lightweight fabric”“lightweight wood”
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Synonyms:
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light
of comparatively little physical weight or density
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light
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a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
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type of:
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gladiator, prizefighter
a professional boxer
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gladiator, prizefighter
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an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
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a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
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someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
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synonyms:
jackanapes, whippersnapper
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having no importance or influence“a lightweight intellect”
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Synonyms:
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unimportant
not important
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unimportant
Vocabulary lists containing lightweight
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Vocabulary from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."
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