Synonyms for overweight
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Obese — weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce
obese, fat, morbidly obese, chubby, pudgy, portly, rotund, plump, roly-poly, adipose, paunchy, podgy, overnourished, corpulent, stout, tubby slang, chunky slang
Other
heavy-set, pot-bellied, swag-bellied, dumpty, gorbellied dated
Noun
2. Corpulence
Definitions
- adj. 1
Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
- adj. 2
Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.
- n. 1
An overweight person.
- n. 2
An excess of weight.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- great heavyweight hefty large stocky
Forms
- Plural
- overweights → obesities, adiposities, corpulences, stoutnesses…
Example sentences
- fat Between you and me, the fat ugly man is on a diet.
- obese Some are just obese, others have a bonus goiter.
- chubby Tom told me that he thought that Mary was chubby.
By length
- 3 letters
- fat1
- 5 letters
- heavy2, obese2, stout1, plump1, meaty2, tubby2, pudgy2, podgy
- 6 letters
- chubby2, chunky2, fleshy2, dumpty2, portly2, rotund2
- 7 letters
- obesity4, adipose3, paunchy2
- 8 letters
- adiposis
- 9 letters
- corpulent, adiposity, stoutness2
- 10 letters
- corpulence, gorbellied
- 13 letters
- overnourished
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (heavy2 = 2 syllables).