overweight

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.

Examples

• Apple common stock is one of our overweights.
• Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.
• Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.

Synonyms

adiposis, corpulence, fleshy, heavy, stoutness, Rubenesque, adiposity, ample, beer-bellied, big, chubby, chunky, embonpoint, fat, flabby, full-figured, fulsome, gorbellied, gorrel-bellied, heavyset, love-handled, meaty, morbidly obese, obese, obesity, overnourished, paunchy, pleasantly plump, plump, plus-size, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, sonsy, swagbellied, thick, tubby, well-covered, well-padded, well-rounded, well-upholstered, wide

Antonyms

bulky, scrawny, slender, strapping, thin, underweight

Related Words

fat person, gelatinous, paunch

Anagrams of overweight