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overweight en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• ō'vər-wātʹ (US)
• /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English weight English overweight From over- + weight.

Meanings

1. (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
   • Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.
2. (of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
   • All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads. 1988, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment, →ISBN, page 38:
   • The records did not reveal any previous encounters with severe turbulence. The three major alterations/repairs involving the wing were either far outboard of the strut wing station, or were performed on the right wing. Two overweight landings had been recorded since the aircraft was put into service with Evergreen. In both cases, an inspection of the airplane was accomplished in accordance with the Boeing Maintenance Manual. 1993 October 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.17.1 Maintenance Records”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Engine Separation, Japan Airlines, Inc., Flight 46E, Boeing 747-121, N473EV, Anchorage, Alaska, March 31, 1993, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022, page 26:
   • Postaccident examination of the vehicle indicated, for example, that the driver had not adequately maintained his logbook and that his vehicle had been overweight for travel in Indiana. 1999 July 26, National Transportation Safety Board, “Operator Actions”, in Railroad Accident Report: Collision of Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Train 102 With a Tractor-Trailer, Portage, Indiana, June 18, 1998, →ISBN, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022, page 48:
   • He got as far as the first weigh station, where troopers found his truck to be overweight and threatened to pull him off the road. 1993, Legacy in the Sand: Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm, →ISBN, page 74:
3. (followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
   • Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.

Forms

Antonyms

strapping · underweight · slender · scrawny · thin

Deriveds

overweightness · overweight spaceship

Hypernyms

hefty · large · heavyweight · physique · great · stout · stocky · thickset

Hyponyms

obese · voluptuous · porcine · endomorphic · beef to the hoof

Relateds

paunch · gelatinous · fat person

Synonyms

sonsy · potbellied · podgy · beer-bellied · pudgy · Rubenesque · fulsome · portly · fleshy · well-upholstered · pleasantly plump · fat (of a person) · ample · morbidly obese (of a person) · well-rounded · well-covered · big · chunky · gorbellied · paunchy · love-handled · obese (of a person) · tubby · heavyset · well-padded · embonpoint · wide · gorrel-bellied · flabby · full-figured · bulky · chubby · meaty · swagbellied · rotund · plus-size · overnourished (of a person) · plump · thick · heavy · roly-poly

Translations (61)

sv tjock (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · az artıq çəkili (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · hy նորմայից ավել քաշ ունեցող (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · pt sobrecarregado (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · ru страда́ющий ожире́нием (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · el υπέρβαρος (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · ru гру́зный (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · de überladen (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · eo superpeza (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · es con pesantez excesiva (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · nah tomahuac (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · es tener exceso de pesadez (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · mi tōpāparu (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · km លើសទម្ងន់ (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · es con demasiada pesadura (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · da overlæsset (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · es tener pesadumbre excesiva (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · ota شیشمان (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · bg претоварен (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · nl te zwaar (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · de übergewichtig (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · cmn 超載 /超载 (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · es tener sobrepeso (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · cy dros ei bwysau (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · es con exceso de peso (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · pt com sobrepeso (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · da overvægtig (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · el υπέρβαρος (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · ml അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · ota سمیز (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · nn overvektig (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · he שמן (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · ml അമിതഭാര (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · pl mający nadwagę (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · es con sobrepeso (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · es tener demasiado pesor (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · ba һимеҙ (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · mi katete (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · ga róthrom (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · cmn 超重 (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · nl te zwaar (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · fr en surpoids (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · he בעל משקל עודף (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · sv överviktig (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · cmn 超重 (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · ba йыуан (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · it in sovrappeso (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · mk прето́варен (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · ru ту́чный (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · fi ylipainoinen (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · it sovrappeso (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · hu túlsúlyos (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · pl z nadwagą (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · ms gemuk tambun (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · fi ylipainoinen (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · ja メタボな (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · nb overvektig (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · ga róthrom (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · pl przeciążony (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed) · pt com excesso de peso (of a person, heavier than is healthy) · ru перегру́женный (of a vehicle, weighing more than is allowed)

overweight en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈoʊvɚweɪt/ (US)
• ōʹvər-wāt (US)
• /ˈəʊvəweɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English weight English overweight From over- + weight.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) An excess of weight.
   • […] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense; […] 1976, Acts of the Legislature, volume 1, Louisiana, page 445:
   • It is clear that a bird would certainly be grounded by overweight if it retained eggs in the body and discharged them in large numbers at one time, like a turtle[.] 1985, J.D. McDonald, Australian Birds: A Popular Guide to Bird Life, Sydney: Reed Books, page 66:
2. (uncountable) The condition of being overweight.
   • SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT 2007, Josephine Martin, Charlotte Oakley, Managing child nutrition programs: leadership for excellence, page 462:
3. (countable) An overweight person.
   • Singh found that the normal weight figures were judged more attractive than the underweights‚ who were more attractive than the overweights. 1998, Adrian Furnham, Melanie Dias, Alastair McClelland, “The role of body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, and breast size in judgments of female attractiveness”, in Sex roles, volume 39, number 3, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 311–326:
   • 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:
   • The study provides up-to-date facts on the variety of diseases, vascular, metabolic, hepatic, and other, which are responsible for the excess mortality of overweights. 1951, Louis Israel Dublin, Mortality Among Insured Overweights in Recent Years, Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America, →OCLC, page 28:
4. (countable) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
   • Apple common stock is one of our overweights.

Forms

Antonyms

underweight

Synonyms

obesity (of a person) · adiposity (of a person)

Translations (26)

ml അമിതവണ്ണം (excess of weight) · fa اضافهوزن (excess of weight) · cmn 超載 /超载 (excess of weight) · hu többletsúly (excess of weight) · cmn 超重 (excess of weight) · nl overgewicht (excess of weight) · de Übergewicht (excess of weight) · hu túlsúly (excess of weight) · hu súlytöbblet (excess of weight) · fi ylipaino (excess of weight) · nn overvekt (excess of weight) · es pesadura excesiva (excess of weight) · sv övervikt (excess of weight) · da overvægt (excess of weight) · ml അമിതഭാരം (excess of weight) · da overlæs (excess of weight) · pl nadwaga (excess of weight) · he משקל עודף (excess of weight) · sw uzito uliozidi (excess of weight) · es exceso de pesantez (excess of weight) · nb overvekt (excess of weight) · pt sobrepeso (excess of weight) · bg свръхтегло (excess of weight) · csb nądwôga (excess of weight) · es demasiado pesor (excess of weight) · es sobrepeso (excess of weight)

overweight en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English weight English overweight From over- + weight.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
   • By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies. 1916, F[rank] Berkeley Smith, Babette: A Novel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 240:
   • Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...]. 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:
   • Such things are not for us to know. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and over-weight our feeble reason till it fell and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
2. (transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
   • We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
   • Kinnel explained it, the problem at Select High Income was that it overweighted mortgage bonds and underweighted other types of corporate debt, a strategy that backfired when the mortgage market collapsed. 2009 January 11, Geraldine Fabrikant, “How Safe Is That Nest Egg, Anyhow?”, in New York Times:

Forms

Antonyms

underweight