Overweight

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Weighing more than is normal, necessary, or allowed, especially having more body weight than is considered normal or healthy for one's age or build.
  • n. More weight than is normal, necessary, or allowed.
  • n. Greater weight or importance; preponderance.
  • v. To weigh down too heavily; overload.
  • v. To give too much emphasis, importance, or consideration to.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
  • adj. weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce
  • adj. Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
  • n. An excess of weight.
  • n. A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.
  • n. Superabundance of weight; preponderance.
  • adj. Overweighing; excessive.
  • adj. Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Greater weight than is required by law, custom, or rule; greater weight than is desired or intended.
  • n. Preponderance: sometimes used adjectively.
  • To weigh down; burden to excess; hamper.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the property of excessive fatness
  • adj. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
    • Equivalent
    fat   
    Antonym
    underweight   
    Verb Form
    overweighted    overweighting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fleshiness    obesity    corpulency   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    preponderance    overweighing    excessive    excess    obese   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ate    Cate    Est    Fate    Haight   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    obese    portly    middle-aged    rotund    stocky   
     
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