Synonyms for obese

Most common

fat · overweight · corpulent · rotund

All synonyms

Adjective

Antonyms

thin, anorexic, emaciated

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Definitions

1. adj. 1

   Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

Related words

Phrases

morbidly obese

Is a kind of

fat heavyset overweight

Example sentences

• plump Some are simply plump, others have a bonus goiter.
• portly My uncle is quite portly – or, to put it less politely, quite fat.
• rotund He's become more rotund since our last meeting.
• corpulent A corpulent man in his mid-forties entered the hall.
• bloated I feel bloated after eating a plate of Pad Thai.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

fat¹

5 letters

gross¹, stout¹, plump¹, burly², tubby², pudgy², podgy

6 letters

chubby², chunky², fleshy², portly², rotund²

7 letters

bloated², weighty², adipose³

8 letters

bouncing²

9 letters

corpulent

10 letters

overweight³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (burly² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

obèse

Italiano

obeso

Español

obeso

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