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单词 lightweight
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lightweightadjective

uk/ˈlaɪt.weɪt/us/ˈlaɪt.weɪt/

lightweight adjective (NOT HEAVY)

weighing only a little or less than average:

I need a lightweight jacket for the summer evenings.

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Light and weightless

  • (as) light as a feather idiom
  • airy
  • be (as) light as a feather idiom
  • ethereal
  • feather
  • floaty
  • fluffy
  • foamy
  • frothy
  • insubstantial
  • lather
  • light
  • lightness
  • portable
  • sheer
  • weightless
  • wispy

lightweight adjective (NOT SERIOUS)

disapproving not showing deep understanding or knowledge of any subject:

She's the author of some fairly lightweight historical novels.

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Not showing careful thought

  • airy
  • cuff
  • flip
  • flippant
  • frivolity
  • frivolous
  • ill-conceived
  • incautious
  • off the cuff idiom
  • pat
  • preconceived
  • shallow
  • shoot
  • shoot from the hip idiom
  • skin-deep
  • superficial
  • thoughtless
  • unconsidered
  • unthinking
  • wild

lightweightnoun [ C ]

uk/ˈlaɪt.weɪt/us/ˈlaɪt.weɪt/

lightweight noun [ C ] (SPORTS PERSON)

in some sports, including boxing, a person whose weight is between featherweight and welterweight

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Fighting sports

  • all-in wrestling
  • arm-wrestling
  • bantamweight
  • black belt
  • body blow
  • flyweight
  • foil
  • gumshield
  • heavyweight
  • jab
  • jiujitsu
  • knockout
  • left-hander
  • punching bag
  • rope
  • roundhouse kick
  • sabre
  • savate
  • spar
  • wrestler

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lightweight noun [ C ] (NOT SERIOUS)

disapproving a person whose work in a particular area of activity does not show a deep understanding or knowledge of that subject:

In certain circles he has been dismissed as a literary lightweight.

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Inexperienced people and lack of experience

  • beginner
  • blind
  • dilettante
  • freshman
  • functional illiterate
  • greenhorn
  • know
  • layman
  • laywoman
  • neophyte
  • newcomer
  • not know the meaning of the word idiom
  • rookie
  • stranger
  • the blind leading the blind idiom
  • the uninitiated
  • tyro
  • upstart
  • virgin

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