as in plump
having an excess of body fat
an overweight person who had difficulty running even a short distance
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Recent Examples of overweight
Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026
That discipline is the same one that drove Royal to trim his large-cap growth overweight in the first place.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Feb. 2026
In an 18-month study of women with type 2 diabetes with overweight or obesity, researchers compared those who switched from diet soda to water with those who kept drinking diet soda.
—Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
Coherent received a couple of bullish reports from analysts this week, with JPMorgan lifting its price target to $300 from $245 and maintaining an overweight rating on the name.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026
That discipline is the same one that drove Royal to trim his large-cap growth overweight in the first place.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
Children and teens can develop type 2 diabetes, as can people who do not have overweight or obesity or who have no family history of the condition.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Feb. 2026
In an 18-month study of women with type 2 diabetes with overweight or obesity, researchers compared those who switched from diet soda to water with those who kept drinking diet soda.
—Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overweight
Adjective
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The centerpiece, adorned with plump peaches and a full moon, blends an American style of clay-throwing with carving techniques Saw learned in Jingdezhen.—
Abbey Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
9 Apr. 2026
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Vitamin E and sunflower seed oil buff out uneven texture and plump fine lines.—
Alanna Martine Kilkeary,
Glamour,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Enjoy, and see you soon… A flood of cheap copies of Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight-loss drug in India is already reshaping the country’s fast-growing obesity medicine market, showing how quickly the patent cliff will affect GLP-1 makers like Eli Lilly, Bloomberg News explains.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
10 Apr. 2026
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The study is interesting as a computer science paper, but the methods and findings don’t stand up to medical scientific scrutiny, says Yuval Pinto, MD, an obesity and family medicine doctor at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The pastry clung to a thin layer of aspic that enveloped a filing of pork shoulder and fat, bacon, chicken liver, veal sweetbreads, and button, shiitake and wood ear mushrooms.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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Wheat bran is primarily insoluble fiber with a little protein, fat and phenolic compounds.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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After adjusting for a variety of factors, including smoking habits and marital status, the trend showed that becoming obese later in life still carried risks, but the danger compounded the longer people stayed obese.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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She was left with memory deficits and is obese, with balance issues.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
13 Apr. 2026
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And the blue velvet armchair was empty but for the permanent impression of his corpulence.—
Kate Crane,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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Kajumba was a laconic man, rail‑thin, with the type of largish head that suggested nature had intended him for corpulence, even as circumstance had conspired to keep him slender.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Dreams of ocean-view lots and Mediterranean-style villas were relegated to the round file.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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My room, outfitted with a round bed and a freestanding tub, edged into Austin Powers territory—outrageous in theory, wildly practical in reality (especially with the tub offering an impeccable sightline to the TV).—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Overweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweight. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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