lightweight

Speech parts

1. lightweight - Noun

2. lightweight - Adjective

3. lightweight - Verb

4. lightweight - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds

a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds

an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds

someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

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

having no importance or influence

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Examples

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight. Linda McCartney

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting [referring to his printmaking]. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye. Richard Dawkins

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around. Rudy Rucker

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight. Janine Benyus

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me. Julian Clary

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