Overweight

Quick meaning: Overweight is an adjective meaning (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

Meaning

(of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

More Meanings

1. (transport, law, of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
2. (uncountable, chiefly transport, law) An excess of weight.
3. (uncountable, healthcare) The condition of being overweight.
4. (countable) An overweight person.
5. (countable, investment, finance) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
6. (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
7. (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

Example Sentences

Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.

Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.

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.

All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.

Word Forms

• overweights
• overweighting
• overweighted

Synonyms for overweight

Depending on context, synonyms include fat, obese, overnourished, ample, beer-bellied, big.

Antonyms for overweight

Common opposites include underweight, scrawny, strapping, thin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fat, corpulence, fleshy, heavy, stoutness, adiposis.

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