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overweight

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of overweight

having an excess of body fat

an overweight person who had difficulty running even a short distance

Synonyms of overweight

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

Words Related to overweight

beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty

brawny, burly, hefty, husky

dumpy, squat, stubby

hippy, paunchy, potbellied

ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig)

Near Antonyms of overweight

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

Antonyms of overweight

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

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