'Lightweight' definitions:
Definition of 'lightweight'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use; "a lightweight fabric"; "lightweight wood"
adjective
Having no importance or influence; "a lightweight intellect"
noun
A professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
noun
Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous [syn: whippersnapper, jackanapes, lightweight]
noun
An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
noun
A wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
Definition of 'Lightweight'
From: GCIDE
- Lightweight \Light"weight`\ (l[imac]t"w[=a]t`), n. One of less than average weight; specif.: In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighing not more than 133 pounds (U. S. amateur rules 135 pounds, Eng. 140 pounds). [WordNet sense 1] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. A person of small importance or mental ability, especially one who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous. [WordNet sense 2] [Colloq., Chiefly U. S.]
- Syn: whippersnapper, jackanapes. [Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5]
- 3. a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds. [WordNet sense 3] [WordNet 1.5]
Definition of 'Lightweight'
From: GCIDE
- Lightweight \Light"weight`\, a.
- 1. Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. made of thin cloth, of relatively little weight; -- of clothing or fabrics; as, lightweight fabrics. [WordNet sense 1] [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'lightweight'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a nobody,
- a nothing,
- baby,
- bantam,
- bantamweight,
- banty,
- big baby,
- black belt,
- block,
- Boeotian,
- boxer,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brown belt,
- bruiser,
- button,
- catchweight,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- Chinese boxer,
- chit,
- cipher,
- clod,
- cobwebby,
- cog,
- common man,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- creature,
- crumbly,
- crybaby,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diminutive,
- dimwit,
- dolt,
- donkey,
- doormat,
- dope,
- dull tool,
- dullard,
- dumb cluck,
- dumbbell,
- dummy,
- dunce,
- effeminate,
- featherweight,
- fighter,
- figurehead,
- fingerling,
- fisticuffer,
- flimsy,
- flunky,
- flyweight,
- follower,
- forceless,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- gowk,
- gutless wonder,
- heavyweight,
- hoi polloi,
- imponderous,
- impotent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inferior,
- insignificancy,
- invertebrate,
- jackstraw,
- jellyfish,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- jobbernowl,
- junior,
- karate expert,
- lackwit,
- lamebrain,
- light,
- light heavyweight,
- little fellow,
- little guy,
- looby,
- loon,
- lower class,
- lower orders,
- man of straw,
- masses,
- mediocrity,
- meek soul,
- middleweight,
- milksop,
- Milquetoast,
- mini,
- minikin,
- minnow,
- minny,
- mollycoddle,
- mouse,
- namby-pamby,
- nebbish,
- niais,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- ninnyhammer,
- nitwit,
- no-account,
- nobody one knows,
- noddy,
- nonentity,
- nubbin,
- obscurity,
- of no account,
- palooka,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- pawn,
- peewee,
- pip-squeak,
- pony,
- powerless,
- prizefighter,
- pug,
- pugilist,
- punk,
- puny,
- pushover,
- put,
- runt,
- sad sack,
- savate expert,
- scrub,
- second fiddle,
- secondary,
- shattery,
- shrimp,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slip,
- small fry,
- small potato,
- small potatoes,
- snip,
- snippet,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- sparrer,
- squirt,
- squit,
- stupid,
- subaltern,
- subordinate,
- tacky,
- thickwit,
- third stringer,
- tit,
- unauthoritative,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- underweight,
- unheavy,
- unsubstantial,
- wart,
- weak,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- weightless,
- welterweight,
- whiffet,
- whippersnapper,
- wisp,
- wispy,
- without any weight,
- witling,
- womanish,
- yes-man