Thesaurus:overweight

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)
• 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

• bulky
• scrawny    [⇒ thesaurus]
• slender    [⇒ thesaurus]
• strapping    [⇒ thesaurus]
• thin

Hyponyms

• endomorphic
• obese    [⇒ thesaurus]
• voluptuous    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• beef to the hoof (Ireland, idiomatic)

Hypernyms

• big    [⇒ thesaurus]
• great
• heavy
• heavyset
• heavyweight
• hefty
• large    [⇒ thesaurus]
• stocky    [⇒ thesaurus]
• stout
• thickset
•   —
• physique    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• gelatinous    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:fat
• Thesaurus:fat person
• Thesaurus:paunch

Further reading

• “192. size” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “overweight” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.