overweight

Meaning

Adj

1. Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
2. Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
3. Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

Noun

1. (uncountable) An excess of weight.
2. (uncountable) The condition of being overweight.
3. (countable) An overweight person.
4. (countable) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

Verb

1. (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
2. (transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

Synonyms

fat

plump

fleshy

chubby

heavy

obese

corpulence

stoutness

obesity

adiposis

overbalance

corpulent

preponderance

excess

burden

excess weight

redundancy

stout

superheavy

surplus

thick

top-heavy

well-fed

be heavy

weight

cobby

be obese

fat city

excessive weight

owerflow

advantage

encumber

encumbrance

glut

gross

heft

onus

outweigh

overcharge

overgrowth

overload

oversized

portly

preponderant

put on weight

Translations

Übergewicht

sovrappeso

sobrepeso

surpoids

übergewichtig

obeso

υπέρβαρος

sobrepeso

overgewicht

sobrepès

poids en excès

soprappeso

فرط الوزن

obèse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/

Etymology

From over- + weight.