Overweight

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  • adjective. 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. synonym: fat.
  • noun. More weight than is normal, necessary, or allowed.
  • noun. Greater weight or importance; preponderance.
  • transitive verb. To weigh down too heavily; overload.
  • transitive verb. To give too much emphasis, importance, or consideration to.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Greater weight than is required by law, custom, or rule; greater weight than is desired or intended.
  • noun. Preponderance: sometimes used adjectively.
  • To weigh down; burden to excess; hamper.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.
  • noun. Superabundance of weight; preponderance.
  • adjective. Overweighing; excessive.
  • adjective. Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
  • adjective. weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce
  • adjective. Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
  • noun. An excess of weight.
  • noun. A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the property of excessive fatness
  • adjective. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
    • Word Usage
    ""I don't know that I'm a good fit for the Food Network," she says, "but I'm a good fit, I feel like, for what I call the overweight community - which I still feel a part of.""
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    underweight  
    Equivalent
    fat  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    corpulency  fleshiness  obesity  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ate  Cate  Est  Fate  Haight  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barrel-chested  bearded  beefy  chubby  corpulent  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adipose  avoirdupois  bear hard upon  beef  beefiness  
    verb-form
    overweighted  overweighting  
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