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obese en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈbiːs/ (UK)
  • /əʊˈbiːs/ (UK)
  • /oʊˈbis/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • ōbēs

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“to eat”).

Meanings

  1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
    • But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^([sic]) “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology. 2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:
    • The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19. 2020 October 3, Peter Bowes, “Trump spends first night in hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis”, in BBC:

Forms

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obeser Degree=Cmp lexicographic
more obese Degree=Cmp lexicographic
obesest Degree=Sup lexicographic
most obese Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

thin · emaciated · anorexic · willowy · scrawny · starved

Coordinates

stout · thickset · unskinny · husky · thick · voluptuous · chubby · stocky · juicy

Deriveds

unobese · obeseness · obesogenic · antiobese · obesely · obeast · obesity · hyperobese · nonobese · preobese · morbidly obese · superobese · obesophobia · overobese · obeseism · obesify · clinically obese · postobese

Hypernyms

heavyset · overweight · fat

Hyponyms

superobese · morbidly obese

Relateds

fat · physique · fat person · paunch

Synonyms

spherical · gravitationally challenged · fat as a cow · horizontally challenged · lardy · poddy · big-boned · porky · bulbous · fat as a pig · bloated · rotund · eurysome · round · blubbery · curvy · corpulent · porcine · tubby · gross · Daniel Lambertish · famine resistant · obese · big as a house

Translations (65)

ota سمیز (extremely overweight) · hy չաղ (extremely overweight) · no korpulent (extremely overweight) · arz سمين (extremely overweight) · ru ту́чный (extremely overweight) · ru по́лный (extremely overweight) · cs obézní (extremely overweight) · de fettsüchtig (extremely overweight) · nl vetzuchtig (extremely overweight) · jam mampy (extremely overweight) · fa چاق (extremely overweight) · de adipös (extremely overweight) · te లావు (extremely overweight) · ja 肥満 (extremely overweight) · mk згоен (extremely overweight) · ro obez (extremely overweight) · te లావైన (extremely overweight) · el παχύσαρκος (extremely overweight) · la obēsus (extremely overweight) · cy corffog (extremely overweight) · sk obézny (extremely overweight) · ml പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള (extremely overweight) · es obeso (extremely overweight) · pt obeso (extremely overweight) · fi obeesi (extremely overweight) · txb kraupalñetstse (extremely overweight) · te ఊబ (extremely overweight) · sq ngjallur (extremely overweight) · nl obees (extremely overweight) · it obeso corpulento (extremely overweight) · mk угоен (extremely overweight) · mk дебел (extremely overweight) · chr ᎦᎵᏦᎯᏓ (extremely overweight) · hu elhízott (extremely overweight) · vi béo phì (extremely overweight) · ba һимеҙ (extremely overweight) · ml അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള (extremely overweight) · bg шишкав (extremely overweight) · fi liikalihava (extremely overweight) · ru жи́рный (extremely overweight) · pl otyły (extremely overweight) · gl obeso (extremely overweight) · nl diklijvig (extremely overweight) · ca obès (extremely overweight) · ang oferfǣtt (extremely overweight) · arz تخين (extremely overweight) · ru то́лстый (extremely overweight) · ka მსუქანი (extremely overweight) · fr obèse (extremely overweight) · oc bombut (extremely overweight) · cmn 肥胖 (extremely overweight) · de fettleibig (extremely overweight) · uz semiz (extremely overweight) · la corpulentus (extremely overweight) · ko 뚱뚱한 (extremely overweight) · da fed (extremely overweight) · tr obez (extremely overweight) · sh prètio (extremely overweight) · ota شیشمان (extremely overweight) · hu obez (extremely overweight) · dsb syty (extremely overweight) · oc obès (extremely overweight) · cy corffol (extremely overweight) · sh gȍjāzan (extremely overweight) · cy gordew (extremely overweight)

obese en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /əˈbiːs/ (UK)
  • /əʊˈbiːs/ (UK)
  • /oʊˈbis/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • ōbēs

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“to eat”).

Meanings

  1. A person who is obese.
    • Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI. 2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men, SCIRJ:
    • Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs. 2009, Abdoulaye Ba, Stephane Delliaux, Fabienne Bregeon, Samuel Levy, Yves Jammes, “Post-exercise heart rate recovery in healthy, obeses, and COPD subjects: relationships with blood lactic acid and PaO2 levels”, in Clinical Research in Cardiology, volume 98, number 1, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 52–58:

Forms

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obeses Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (11)

de Fettleibige (Translations) · pl otyła (Translations) · pl otyły (Translations) · de Fettleibiger (Translations) · ro obeză (Translations) · de Fettsüchtiger (Translations) · de Fettsüchtige (Translations) · fi liikalihava (Translations) · de Adipöse (Translations) · ro obez (Translations) · de Adipöser (Translations)