Obese

Quick meaning: Obese is an adjective meaning A person who is obese.

Meaning

A person who is obese.

More 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.

Example Sentences

The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19.

Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.

Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs.

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.

Word Forms

• obeser
• obesest
• obeses

Synonyms for obese

Depending on context, synonyms include big-boned, bulbous, corpulent, curvy, eurysome, rotund.

Antonyms for obese

Common opposites include scrawny, thin, emaciated, anorexic, starved, willowy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include corpulent, fat, weighty, rotund, overweight, adiposity.

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