Synonyms for overweight
ˈoʊ vərˈweɪt; ˈoʊ vərˌweɪt; ˌoʊ vərˈweɪtover·weight

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1. overweightnoun

   Antonyms:
   underweight

2. overweightadjective

   heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

   Antonyms:
   underweight

3. overweightadjective

   Synonyms:
   morbidly obese, clinically obese, super obese, obese, fat

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1. corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposisadjective

   the property of excessive fatness

   Synonyms:
   corpulence, adiposis, stalwartness, stoutness

   Antonyms:
   lean, thin

2. fleshy, heavy, overweightadjective

   usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

   Synonyms:
   laboured, sullen, laborious, heavy, toilsome, intemperate, sound, wakeless, dense, grueling, with child(p), threatening, grave, profound, sarcoid, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), arduous, operose, heavy(p), big(a), labored, punishing, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

   Antonyms:
   thin, lean

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1. overweightnoun

   Synonyms:
   preponderance

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1. List of paraphrases for "overweight":

   overweight-, obese, obesity, over-weight, bulge, girth

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1. Sean Callow:

   The scale of the collapse shows that any hopes of a temporary respite were in vain, the notion that overweight equities is the only real option in a world of super-low rates now seems to be from' The Time Before'.

2. Stephen Brackett:

   It was really important to us that, obviously, this show is about a young, gay, overweight Black man, it's very specific to the identity of that story, but we knew that we wanted it to have as much of a universal implication as possible.

3. Gary Frost:

   We are working with partners to get evidence to make a food ingredient claim, this small, proof-of-principle study shows encouraging signs that supplementing one's diet with the ingredient we've developed prevents weight gain in overweight people.

4. Robert Eckel:

   The other thing, age and being male, I think both of those two things have been recently and repeatedly validated by other studies. So, basically being above the age of 70 and being male with diabetes and being overweight or obese really had a major outcome on the outcome.

5. Trigo Paz:

   We expect double-digit returns so...we are very overweight. The more things go our way, the more we shall add (to positions).