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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
overweight (noun)
1.
weight over and above what is required or allowed
2.
excessive or burdensome weight
overweight (verb)
transitive verb
1.
to give too much weight or consideration to
2.
to weight excessively
overweight (adjective)
exceeding expected, normal, or proper weight , especially exceeding the bodily weight normal for one's age, height, and build
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
overweight (adjective)
having an excess of body fat
SYNONIMS:
blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy, portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby
RELATED WORDS:
beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty; brawny, burly, hefty, husky; dumpy, squat, stubby; hippy, paunchy, potbellied; flabby, soft; ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig ( zoftig); endomorphic
NEAR ANTONYMS:
angular, bony ( 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; ectomorphic; anorexic
lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

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