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overfat en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + fat.

Meanings

1. Having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.
   • Similarly, when compared to a person who is very fat, but who has less muscle and a smaller bone structure, the athlete may be of similar weight, but one will be overweight and the other overfat. 2002, Tony Scott, Revise for PE GCSE: Edexcel, page 63:
   • It seems that people with an ancestral history of enduring famines develop a tendency to store more body fat, becoming overfat even when they aren’t overweight. 2025 June 17, Shane Duquette, Marco Walker-Ng, “What is Skinny Fat? And How to Know If You Are”, in Bony to Beastly, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025:

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