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Synonyms for overweight
ˈoʊ vərˈweɪt; ˈoʊ vərˌweɪt; ˌoʊ vərˈweɪtover·weight
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Wiktionary
overweightnoun
Antonyms:
underweightoverweightadjective
heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
Antonyms:
underweightoverweightadjective
Synonyms:
morbidly obese, clinically obese, super obese, obese, fat
Princeton's WordNet
corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposisadjective
the property of excessive fatness
Synonyms:
corpulence, adiposis, stalwartness, stoutnessfleshy, 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
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
overweightnoun
Synonyms:
preponderance
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List of paraphrases for "overweight":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#596 | hard | |
#803 | sound | |
#1690 | fat | |
#2145 | heavy | |
#8065 | grave | |
#9315 | obesity | |
#9770 | dense | |
#9902 | threatening | |
#11321 | profound | |
#12580 | lowering | |
#15613 | overweight | |
#19528 | obese | |
#28274 | bulge | |
#32471 | punishing | |
#38830 | fleshy | |
#38946 | expectant | |
#39831 | girth | |
#40529 | grievous | |
#40798 | arduous | |
#48375 | weighty | |
#51185 | impenetrable | |
#52469 | labored | |
#52801 | grueling | |
#53660 | laborious | |
#58451 | sullen | |
#71019 | lumbering | |
#76396 | clayey | |
#77629 | sonorous | |
#78731 | ponderous | |
#84783 | laboured | |
#90856 | gruelling | |
#91829 | leaden | |
#127101 | intemperate | |
#137636 | enceinte | |
#145397 | gravid | |
#183574 | backbreaking | |
#218887 | toilsome | |
#220110 | sarcoid | |
#280352 | corpulence |
How to use overweight in a sentence?
Up to 95% of the adult population are overweight or obese in some countries.
Anything that might ease the regulatory process would be good, we're already overweight on pharmaceutical stocks and have been for some time. We think they offer good value in terms of their dividend yield, free cashflow, and have better growth prospects than many other sectors.
Most of us are overweight, diabetic, with heart conditions, i mean, we’re prime targets for a disease like COVID.
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.
Added sugars are often found in processed foods which have little nutritional value and may lead to overeating and excess calorie intake, which in turn leads to overweight/obesity, a well-established risk factor for heart disease.
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