overweight

Speech parts

1. overweight - Noun

2. overweight - Adjective

3. overweight - Verb

4. overweight - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

Superabundance of weight; preponderance.

Overweighing; excessive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

heavy obesity fat obese fleshy corpulence stoutness adiposis tubby chub large adipose porcine brawny chubby
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Antonyms

underweight haggard boney gaunt reedy twiggy
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Hypernyms

obesity corpulency fleshiness

Hyponyms

obesity

Phrases with the word

be overweight overweight cell overweight person

Examples

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Barry

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. David Zinczenko

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness. Gloria Estefan

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. Shelley Winters

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do. Brian Tracy

Being overweight is being halfway sick. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

overweeningly overweeningness overweigh overweight cell overweight person overweightage