obese

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US/oʊˈbis/UK/əʊˈbiːs/UK/əˈbiːs/

adjective

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.

Less commonScrabble 7

Meanings

adjectiveobese (comparative more obese or obeser, superlative most obese or obesest)

comparative more obese · comparative obeser · superlative most obese · superlative obesest

  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.

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

    2020 October 3, Peter Bowes, “Trump spends first night in hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis”, in BBC
    1 more example

    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.

    2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer

    Synonyms: big-boned, bulbous, corpulent, curvy, Daniel Lambertish, eurysome, famine resistant, gravitationally challenged

nounobese (plural obeses)

plural obeses

  1. A person who is obese.

    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
    1 more example

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

    2009, Abdoulaye Ba, Stephane Delliaux, Fabienne Bregeon, Samuel Levy, Yves Jammes, “Post-exercise heart rate recovery in healthy, obeses, and COPD subjects: relationships with blood lactic acid and PaO2 levels”, in Clinical Research in Cardiology, volume 98, number 1, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 52–58

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveExtremely 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.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveexcessively fat

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinobēsus
  2. Englishobese

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“to eat”).

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Translations

Bulgarian шишкав
  • шишкав (šiškav)extremely overweight
Catalan obès
  • obèsextremely overweight
Chinese Mandarin 肥胖
  • 肥胖 (féipàng)extremely overweight
Czech obézní
  • obézníextremely overweight
Danish fed
  • fedextremely overweight
Dutch obees, vetzuchtig
  • obeesextremely overweight
  • vetzuchtigextremely overweight
  • diklijvigextremely overweight
Finnish liikalihava, obeesi
  • liikalihavaextremely overweight
  • obeesiextremely overweight
  • liikalihavaTranslations
French obèse
  • obèseextremely overweight
German fettleibig, fettsüchtig
  • fettleibigextremely overweight
  • fettsüchtigextremely overweight
  • adipösextremely overweight
  • FettleibigerTranslations
  • FettleibigeTranslations
  • FettsüchtigerTranslations
  • FettsüchtigeTranslations
  • AdipöserTranslations
  • AdipöseTranslations
Greek παχύσαρκος
  • παχύσαρκος (pachýsarkos)extremely overweight
Hungarian elhízott, obez
  • elhízottextremely overweight
  • obezextremely overweight
Italian obeso corpulento
  • obeso corpulentoextremely overweight
Japanese 肥満
  • 肥満 (himan)extremely overweight
Korean 뚱뚱한
  • 뚱뚱한 (ttungttunghan)extremely overweight
Latin obēsus, corpulentus
  • obēsusextremely overweight
  • corpulentusextremely overweight
Malay obes
  • obesextremely overweight
Norwegian korpulent
  • korpulentextremely overweight
Persian چاق
  • چاق (čâq)extremely overweight
Polish otyły, otyły
  • otyłyextremely overweight
  • otyłyTranslations
  • otyłaTranslations
Portuguese obeso
  • obesoextremely overweight
Romanian obez, obez
  • obezextremely overweight
  • obezTranslations
  • obezăTranslations
Russian то́лстый, по́лный
  • то́лстый (tólstyj)extremely overweight
  • по́лный (pólnyj)extremely overweight
  • ту́чный (túčnyj)extremely overweight
  • жи́рный (žírnyj)extremely overweight
Slovak obézny
  • obéznyextremely overweight
Spanish obeso
  • obesoextremely overweight
Turkish obez
  • obezextremely overweight
Vietnamese béo phì
  • béo phìextremely overweight
Welsh corffol, gordew
  • corffolextremely overweight
  • gordewextremely overweight
  • corffogextremely overweight

Rhymes & wordplay

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