obese
adjective
[ ə(ʊ)ˈbiːs ]
• grossly fat or overweight.
• "a hugely obese young man"
Similar:
fat,
overweight,
corpulent,
morbidly obese,
gross,
stout,
fleshy,
outsize,
massive,
heavy,
plump,
portly,
chubby,
rotund,
roly-poly,
paunchy,
pot-bellied,
beer-bellied,
big,
large,
ample,
well upholstered,
well padded,
broad in the beam,
bulky,
bloated,
flabby,
Falstaffian,
porky,
pudgy,
tubby,
blubbery,
poddy,
podgy,
fubsy,
lard-arsed,
pursy,
abdominous,
Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin obesus ‘having eaten until fat’, from ob- ‘away, completely’ + esus (past participle of edere ‘eat’).
