overweight

³over·weight

adj \ˌō-vər-ˈwāt\

Definition of OVERWEIGHT

: exceeding expected, normal, or proper weight; especially : exceeding the bodily weight normal for one's age, height, and build

Examples of OVERWEIGHT

1. He looked to be at least 20 pounds overweight.
2. <an overweight person who had difficulty running even a short distance>

First Known Use of OVERWEIGHT

1638

Related to OVERWEIGHT

Synonyms: blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, fat, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

Antonyms: lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

Related Words: beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty; brawny, burly, hefty, husky; dumpy, squat, stubby; hippy, paunchy, potbellied; flabby, soft; ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig); endomorphic

Near Antonyms: angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy; cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted; puny, scraggy, scrawny, slight; rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy; ectomorphic; anorexic

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