as in plump
having an excess of body fat
an overweight person who had difficulty running even a short distance
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Recent Examples of overweight
Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Wells Fargo reiterates Sunrun as overweight Wells raised its price target on the stock to $14 per share from $8 and says the solar company remains a top idea.
—Michael Bloom, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 19 Aug. 2025
Maintain or work toward a healthy body weight, with a goal of losing at least 5 percent of total body weight in people who are overweight or have obesity.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
For people with overweight or obesity, the guidelines recommend losing at least 5% of body weight.
—Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Wells Fargo reiterates Sunrun as overweight Wells raised its price target on the stock to $14 per share from $8 and says the solar company remains a top idea.
—Michael Bloom, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
The blockbuster drugs designed to control diabetes — now also widely used to help overweight people shed pounds — show great promise for tackling other prickly health problems: treating alcoholism, and perhaps smoking and other substance use disorders as well.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 19 Aug. 2025
Maintain or work toward a healthy body weight, with a goal of losing at least 5 percent of total body weight in people who are overweight or have obesity.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overweight
Adjective
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This viral scientific mission even included a plump starfish resembling a beloved cartoon character.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
25 Aug. 2025
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Nurtured the little green balls into plump, juicy fruits.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
18 Aug. 2025
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Dysfunctional lipid storage underlies a wide range of health conditions, with obesity and diabetes just two of them.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Aug. 2025
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On the flip side, O’Regan said, physically fit people with obesity had a ‘younger’ cardiovascular age than unfit people.—
Kristen Fischer,
Health,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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So people call me fat and ugly and old-looking, but that’s nothing to do with me.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Key Takeaways White bread is made with refined flour and is relatively high in carbohydrates and calories and low in fiber, protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals.—
Carrie Madormo,
Verywell Health,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In a study of adults who were overweight or obese, increasing protein intake to around 0.45 to 0.6 grams per pound of body weight (g/lb) during weight loss helped reduce muscle loss.1 For example, someone weighing 150 pounds would need about 68 to 89 g of protein per day.—
Jamie Johnson,
Verywell Health,
28 Aug. 2025
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According to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention, roughly 53% of dogs and 58% of cats in the United States are overweight or obese.—
Lisa Bloch,
Mercury News,
26 Aug. 2025
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Whimsy was also the domain of the Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose signature was a race of voluptuously bloated figures — denizens, from priests to bullfighters, of an almost cartoonish world that, to him, had to do not with corpulence but with the sensuality of human life.—
William McDonald,
New York Times,
28 Dec. 2023
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His thick musculature having bloated into unhealthy corpulence, Maradona was hospitalized in Buenos Aires in April 2004 with what doctors described as a weakened heart and acute breathing problems.—
Jeré Longman,
New York Times,
25 Nov. 2020
Adjective
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Yoo wears round wire-frame glasses and sweeps his dark hair back; Schat describes herself as a tomboy and keeps her hair in a pixie cut.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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As Jack Draper stepped up to serve in the third set of his US Open first round match against Federico Agustín Gómez on Monday, the British star threw up on court.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Overweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweight. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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