obese

Meaning

Adj

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.

Noun

A person who is obese.

Synonyms

fat

corpulent

plump

stout

chubby

portly

rotund

fleshy

overweight

weighty

adipose

gross

stocky

porcine

porky

potbellied

pot-bellied

puffy

round

rounded

spherical

swelling

well fed

big-boned

be overweight

very fat

poddy

horizontally challenged

polysarcous

abdominous

well-covered

beefy

big

bloated

enormous

fatty

fleshed

heavy

huge

husky

muscular

overstuffed

paunchy

Translations

obeso

obèse

obeso

fettleibig

παχύσαρκος

corpulento

obeso

korpulent

obès

beleibt

بدين

diklijvig

fettsüchtig

obees

Pronounced as (IPA)

/oʊˈbis/

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”). Displaced native Old English oferfǣtt (literally “overfat”).