Thesaurus:overweight
English
Adjective
Sense: heavier, having more body fat, than is generally considered healthy
Synonyms
- ample [⇒ thesaurus]
- beer-bellied
- big [⇒ thesaurus]
- chubby
- chunky (slang)
- embonpoint
- fat [⇒ thesaurus]
- flabby
- fleshy
- full-figured
- fulsome
- gorbellied (obsolete)
- gorrel-bellied (obsolete)
- heavyset
- love-handled
- meaty [⇒ thesaurus]
- overnourished (euphemistic)
- paunchy
- pleasantly plump (slang)
- plump
- plus-size
- portly
- potbellied
- podgy
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- Rubenesque
- sonsy (British dialect)
- swagbellied
- thick
- tubby
- well-covered (British)
- well-padded
- well-rounded
- well-upholstered
- wide [⇒ thesaurus]
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- endomorphic
- obese [⇒ thesaurus] (often used coordinately rather than hyponymically)
- voluptuous [⇒ thesaurus]
- —
- beef to the hoof (Ireland, idiomatic)
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- obese [⇒ thesaurus] (often used coordinately rather than hyponymically)
Various
See also
Further reading
- “192. size” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “overweight” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.