Obese

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  • adjective. Having excessive body weight caused by the accumulation of fat; extremely fat. synonym: fat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exceedingly corpulent; fat: fleshy.
  • In entomology, very much larger than usual; appearing as if distended with food, as the abdomen of a meloĆ« or oil-beetle.
  • Specifically, of or pertaining to the Obesa.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. excessively fat
  • Word Usage
    "The UK is on course to be the most obese nation in Europe by 2050 with 60\% of men and 50\% of women classed as obese* and surgical weight loss controls are becoming evermore popular."
    Equivalent
    fat  
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    obeses  obesity  
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