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overweight adjective

• above a weight considered normal or desirable.
• "she was a stone overweight"
Similar: fat, obese, morbidly obese, stout, corpulent, gross, fleshy, plump, portly, chubby, rotund, podgy, roly-poly, paunchy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, bloated, flabby, Falstaffian, big, large, ample, well fed, well upholstered, well padded, broad in the beam, bulky, outsize, massive, heavy, porky, pudgy, tubby, blubbery, poddy, fubsy, lard-arsed, pursy, abdominous,
Opposite: skinny, scrawny, thin, undernourished,
• having more investment in a particular area than is normal or desirable.
• "two of the top three overweight sectors in the US market"

overweight noun

• excessive or extra weight.
• "surgical procedures for overweight"

overweight verb

• put too much weight on; overload.
• "try not to overweight the boxes"


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