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
Jade Walker, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
Jefferies began coverage of the stock Monday with a buy, while Piper and Morgan Stanley each initiated at an overweight.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
There are many options for nutritious, low-calorie pet food specifically designed for overweight pets.
—Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
The method worked for overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
Jefferies began coverage of the stock Monday with a buy, while Piper and Morgan Stanley each initiated at an overweight.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
More than a dozen conditions are listed, including common health issues such as diabetes, a history of smoking, obesity and being overweight.
—Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
There are many options for nutritious, low-calorie pet food specifically designed for overweight pets.
—Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overweight
Adjective
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The formula gets bonus points for not feeling sticky, not traveling or feathering, and smoothing out lip lines for a plump, pouty effect.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The prickly pear extract soothe irration and the brand’s signature VIP O2 complex evens your skin tone and hydrates without any tightness, leaving your face plump, clean, and ready for anything.—
Tanya Akim,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To link circadian burden to specific health outcomes, the researchers analyzed the prevalence of arthritis, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease, depression, diabetes, obesity and stroke.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Abdominal obesity is strongly associated with excess visceral fat, which is the fat stored around your internal organs, such as your liver, pancreas, and intestines.—
Heidi Cope,
Health,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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By inserting an extra biochemical cycle into a model plant, the researchers boosted growth, seed yield, and fat production without increasing water demand.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Another study suggested that overall consumption of milk, yogurt, and cheese—no matter the fat content—has no impact on risk of cardiovascular disease.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For the first time in history, more children are obese than underweight, a shift UNICEF says is putting millions of kids at risk of life-threatening disease.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Being obese is more prevalent than being underweight in all regions of the world except sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As president, George H.W. Bush compared his dog, Ranger, to a blimp in a playful memo to White House staff noting a need to curb doggie treats because of canine corpulence.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
5 Sep. 2025
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Whimsy was also the domain of the Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose signature was a race of voluptuously bloated figures — denizens, from priests to bullfighters, of an almost cartoonish world that, to him, had to do not with corpulence but with the sensuality of human life.—
William McDonald,
New York Times,
28 Dec. 2023
Adjective
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Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Sloomoo is the brand’s adorable shape-shifting mascot, which isn’t round or straight, and isn’t small or tall, but because it’s made of slime, can stretch into any shape at all.—
Sharon Edelson,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Overweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweight. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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