overweight
Meanings
Plural: overweights
Noun
- the property of excessive fatness
- An excess of weight.
- The condition of being overweight.
- An overweight person.
- A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
Adjective Satellite
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
Adj
- Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
- Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
- Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
Verb
- To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
- To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
Origin / Etymology
From over- + weight.
Synonyms
adiposis, adiposity, ample, beer-bellied, big, chubby, chunky, corpulence, embonpoint, fat, flabby, fleshy, full-figured, fulsome, gorbellied, gorrel-bellied, heavy, heavyset, love-handled, meaty, morbidly obese, obese, obesity, overnourished, paunchy, pleasantly plump, plump, plus-size, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, Rubenesque, sonsy, stoutness, swagbellied, thick, tubby, well-covered, well-padded, well-rounded, well-upholstered, wide
Scrabble Score: 20
overweight is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordoverweight is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
overweight is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary