Antonyms 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

   Antonyms:
   lean, thin

   Synonyms:
   corpulence, adiposis, stalwartness, stoutness

2. fleshy, heavy, overweightadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   thin, lean

   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

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1. overweightnoun

   Synonyms:
   preponderance

How to use overweight in a sentence?

1. Ellen Williams:

   The thing with screening tools is that they're great for gathering population data, but they are useless to individuals unless strategies are implemented to help those found at risk, so these kids are being told they are overweight without being taught how to improve the situation with nutrition and exercise.

2. Neil Azous:

   People are overweight defensives in general, and within that there is probably a very big overweight in utilities and staples.

3. Bill Shine:

   They don't want people to be healthy, if people were really healthy -- everyone is fat and overweight -- and the next half-hour we're going to talk about how we can cut back on our favorite summer foods and cut calories with Cooking Light executive chef -- but if they keep everyone fat and overweight and diabetic and cancer-ridden and stupid and sick, no one has any willpower to fight back or even think for themselves. That's what the goal is.

4. Jessica Bartfield:

   A lot of our overweight patients aren’t necessarily overeating, but their eating patterns have become so erratic—they have a cup of coffee in the morning and then no real food until late afternoon, they key is to avoid that and keep a consistent schedule, whether that’s three meals a day and a couple of snacks, or five mini meals.

5. Mark Mattson:

   We published two studies with Dr. Michelle Harvie at the University of Manchester ; each included 100 overweight women, and the design of both studies was the same, we divided them into two groups ; one group got the 5:2 diet ; the other group had three meals per day but we reduced the amount of calories by 20 % to 25 % below what they normally eat -- so that the weekly calorie intake of both groups would be the same.

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