overfat

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adjective

Having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveoverfat (comparative more overfat, superlative most overfat)

comparative more overfat · superlative most overfat

  1. Having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.

    It seems that people with an ancestral history of enduring famines develop a tendency to store more body fat, becoming overfat even when they aren’t overweight.

    2025 June 17, Shane Duquette, Marco Walker-Ng, “What is Skinny Fat? And How to Know If You Are”, in Bony to Beastly, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025
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    Similarly, when compared to a person who is very fat, but who has less muscle and a smaller bone structure, the athlete may be of similar weight, but one will be overweight and the other overfat.

    2002, Tony Scott, Revise for PE GCSE: Edexcel, page 63

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