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overweight
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun overweight has 1 sense
- overweight(n = noun.attribute) adiposis, corpulence, stoutness - the property of excessive fatness; Array is a kind of corpulency, fleshiness, obesity
Derived form adjective overweight1
Adjective overweight has 1 sense
- overweight(s = adj.all) fleshy, heavy - usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it; Array Derived form noun overweight1
CIDE DICTIONARY
overweight, n.
- Weight over and above what is required by law or custom. [1913 Webster]
- Superabundance of weight; preponderance. [1913 Webster]
overweight, a.
- Overweighing; excessive. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected; as, the doctor recommends dieting to all his overweight patients; overweight luggage will incur an extra charge. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
overweight, adj., n., & v.
--adj. beyond an allowed or suitable weight.
--n. excessive or extra weight; preponderance.
--v.tr. (usu. foll. by with) load unduly.
--adj. beyond an allowed or suitable weight.
--n. excessive or extra weight; preponderance.
--v.tr. (usu. foll. by with) load unduly.
THESAURUS
overweight
adipose, avoirdupois, bear hard upon, beef, beefiness, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burden, burly, burthen, buxom, charge, choke, chubby, chunky, congest, congestion, corpulent, cram, crowd, cumber, deadweight, distended, drench, dumpy, encumber, engorgement, fat, fatness, fattish, fleshy, freight, full, giantism, gigantism, glut, gluttonize, gorge, gravity, gross, gross weight, hamper, handicap, heaviness, heavy, heavyset, heavyweight, heft, heftiness, hefty, hippy, hyperemia, hypertrophy, imposing, jam, jam-pack, lade, leaden, liveweight, load, lusty, massive, massy, meaty, neat weight, net, net weight, obese, oppress, outbalance, outpoise, outsize, outsized, outweigh, overbalance, overbig, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overdeveloped, overdevelopment, overfed, overfeed, overfill, overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overgrown, overgrowth, overlade, overlarge, overlargeness, overload, overpoise, oversized, overspill, overstuff, overtax, overweigh, pack, paunchy, plethora, plump, podgy, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderous, ponderousness, portly, potbellied, poundage, press hard upon, pudgy, puffy, pursy, repletion, rest hard upon, roly-poly, rotund, saddle, satiate, satiety, saturate, saturation, soak, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuff, supercharge, supersaturate, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit, swollen, tax, thick-bodied, thickset, tonnage, too big, top-heavy, tubby, underweight, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, weightiness, weighty, well-fed
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