overweight
- weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
Origin of overweight
Related Words for overweight
obese, corpulent, pudgy, heavy, gross, fat, stout, plump, outsize, ample, bulky, fleshy, hefty, huge, massive, portly, rotund, weighty, overfed, overstuffedExamples from the Web for overweight
Contemporary Examples of overweight
Especially in the U.S., where fast food restaurants are abundant and two-thirds of people are overweight or obese.
“The first version looked exactly like Rand, but he was about 50 pounds overweight,” Stinnett laughed.
When students are overweight or obese, well-balanced meals are especially important.
According to the CDC, almost 70 percent of adults in the United States over 20 are overweight.
I think of my friend H, who recently got herself from 19 stone to 12 stone, having been overweight since childhood.
Historical Examples of overweight
You overweight your boy going off and he will be handicapped out of the race, too.
Sonnie-Boy's PeopleJames B. Connolly
Almost instantly the overweight one was behind him, seizing his arm.
The Memory of MarsRaymond F. Jones
We must not overweight the Bill, said the Prime Minister at length.
Lord Randolph ChurchillWinston Spencer Churchill
It looked tired as from the carrying of an overweight of suspicion.
SelinaGeorge Madden Martin
They could as easily have charged you overweight as underweight.
Uncle Sam DetectiveWilliam Atherton Du Puy
overweight
- weighing more than is usual, allowed, or healthy
- finance
- having a higher proportion of one's investments in a particular sector of the market than the size of that sector relative to the total market would suggest: portfolio managers are currently overweight in bonds
- (of a fund etc) invested disproportionately in this way
- extra or excess weight
- archaic greater importance or effect
- to give too much emphasis or consideration to
- to add too much weight to
- to weigh down