Thesaurus:obese
English
Adjective
Sense: extremely overweight
Synonyms
- big-boned (euphemistic)
- bulbous
- corpulent
- curvy (of women, sometimes euphemistic)
- Daniel Lambertish
- eurysome
- famine resistant (euphemistically humorous)
- gravitationally challenged (euphemistically humorous)
- horizontally challenged (euphemistically humorous)
- obese
- rotund
- round
- spherical
Derogatory:
- big as a house
- bloated
- blubbery (US)
- fat as a cow
- fat as a pig
- gross (US)
- lardy (slang)
- poddy
- porcine
- porky (slang)
- tubby (slang)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
- fat [⇒ thesaurus]
- heavyset
- overweight [⇒ thesaurus] (often used coordinately rather than hypernymically)
Coordinate terms
- overweight [⇒ thesaurus] (often used coordinately rather than hypernymically)
Various
See also
Further reading
- “192. size” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “194. expansion” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “obese” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.