as in plump
having an excess of body fat
an overweight person who had difficulty running even a short distance
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Recent Examples of overweight
Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025
Case in point: Olympic medalist Ilona Maher and her overweight BMI of 29.3.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Mar. 2025
Michael Bloom, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
That said, the current medical classifications for overweight and obesity are far from perfect—they’re based on body mass index (BMI), which doesn’t capture the full picture of a person’s health.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Being overweight and sedentary are key contributors to this condition.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025
Case in point: Olympic medalist Ilona Maher and her overweight BMI of 29.3.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
Morgan Stanley reiterates Tesla as overweight The firm lowered its price target on the stock on Thursday night to $410 per share from $430 and says Tesla still remains a top idea.
—Michael Bloom, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
That said, the current medical classifications for overweight and obesity are far from perfect—they’re based on body mass index (BMI), which doesn’t capture the full picture of a person’s health.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overweight
Adjective
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In other words, ceramides help to keep your skin tone plump and even.—
Taylor Lane,
Flow Space,
4 Apr. 2025
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This gooey essence hydrates, soothes, and leaves skin looking plump without feeling greasy.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Insufficient sleep puts you at an elevated risk for a number of health conditions, including depression, anxiety, heart disease and obesity.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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Being in debt is associated with other ailments, including back pain and obesity.—
Jeffrey Anvari-Clark,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Apparently, the secretary is unaware that vitamin A is fat soluble and not easily excreted, with any excess stored in the liver.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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The Blues may have gotten a fat head leading 4-2 with less than nine minutes left in the game.—
Jeremy Rutherford,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Between 2020 and 2023, roughly 17% of obese youth and almost 27% of obese adults with type 1 diabetes were prescribed GLP-1s, according to the new study.—
Julia Ries,
Health,
9 Apr. 2025
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For those who are overweight or obese, medications known as glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, or GLP-1s, have become very popular as weight loss treatments.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Whimsy was also the domain of the Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose signature was a race of voluptuously bloated figures — denizens, from priests to bullfighters, of an almost cartoonish world that, to him, had to do not with corpulence but with the sensuality of human life.—
William McDonald,
New York Times,
28 Dec. 2023
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His thick musculature having bloated into unhealthy corpulence, Maradona was hospitalized in Buenos Aires in April 2004 with what doctors described as a weakened heart and acute breathing problems.—
Jeré Longman,
New York Times,
25 Nov. 2020
Adjective
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We are led to the living room – also the television room – where Sayed and his wife, Zainab, demonstrate how to bake round sun bread, which rises in the sun.—
Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr. 2025
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His signature black-rimmed eyeglasses, huge and round, are bright yellow now.—
Dodie Kazanjian,
Vogue,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Overweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweight. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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