Meaning of overweight in English:
overweight
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adjective
1Above a weight considered normal or desirable.
‘she was a stone overweight’- ‘If overweight, her desirable weight gain is significantly less, about 15 to 25 pounds.’
- ‘Balance caloric intake with physical activity and lose weight if currently overweight or obese.’
- ‘In sharp contrast, her junk-food-eating brother who loves hamburgers is massively overweight and so are her mother and father.’
- ‘It can also be used to determine if people are at a healthy weight, overweight or obese.’
- ‘As long as you're not considerably overweight for your height and age according to your doctor, don't worry about it.’
- ‘Overestimation of height and underestimation of weight in overweight people will magnify underestimation of body mass index.’
- ‘The evidence for the effectiveness of interventions for weight loss among overweight adults, compared with obese adults, is limited.’
- ‘Even with extremely overweight children, weight loss should be gradual.’
- ‘The 71-year-old owner has brought in professionals to help his overweight employees lose weight.’
- ‘‘Gee, look Cindy, they got gondolas,’ crooned an overweight woman to her massive friend.’
- ‘A national poll of more than 2000 men asked whether they considered themselves underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese.’
- ‘Overall, there is no evidence that low-fat diets are any better than low-calorie diets in achieving weight loss in overweight or obese people.’
- ‘It took ten seconds before he emerged, a medium height, slightly overweight man in an expensive dress outfit.’
- ‘Thirty-one percent of children are overweight or obese.’
- ‘Therefore, primary preventive strategies may include measures to avoid weight gain, or to achieve weight loss in overweight patients.’
- ‘Athletic women who are underweight at the start of the pregnancy commonly gain more weight, while overweight women may gain less.’
- ‘Bulimics tend to be of normal weight to slightly overweight.’
- ‘If you are overweight, losing weight may help you feel better.’
- ‘Most of the women in the study who wanted to lose weight were not overweight.’
- ‘I was overweight, but I managed to reduce my weight and have maintained it for the last 10 years.’
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, heavyView synonyms- 1.1Above an allowed weight.‘an overweight lorry’
- ‘Despite police monitoring the number of overweight lorries using the B3080 when the restriction was introduced, some have not stopped flouting the rules.’
- ‘One elderly woman has launched her own campaign for a CCTV camera crackdown on overweight lorries illegally passing through the town centre.’
- ‘Five drivers were reported for allegedly having overweight lorries, and received immediate prohibition notices.’
2Finance
Having more investment in a particular area than is normal or desirable.- ‘two of the top three overweight sectors in the US market’
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noun
mass nounExcessive or extra weight.
‘surgical procedures for overweight’- ‘Only two other comparable studies have examined later adult risk in relation to both childhood and adult overweight, and these used body mass index as a measure of obesity at both ages.’
- ‘Growth charts, ideal body weight, and body mass index were mostly used to assess and monitor overweight.’
- ‘Most people associate extreme overweight with extreme forms of the same behaviors as those that make the rest of us gain weight - eating too much and not moving.’
- ‘To help explain this apparent paradox, we propose that numerous vicious cycles are acting as ‘accelerators’ that maintain and even increase overweight.’
- ‘Because of the difficulty in maintaining weight loss over time, prevention continues to be the most viable option for controlling overweight.’
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verb
[with object]1Put too much weight on; overload.
‘try not to overweight the boxes’- ‘an overweighted boat paddled by clumsy oarsmen’
- ‘Wallowing in the aftermath of such bereavements, she overweights her plots with aching losses.’
- ‘Conversely, the overweighted ball is generally used to enhance shoulder strength and power.’
- ‘A while back I discussed how the powers that be will do ‘whatever it takes’ to keep this overweighted barge afloat.’
- ‘She was significantly overweighted, and the quick release valve for her integrated weights was inoperable.’
- ‘An overweighted diver will have to put extra air into a BC or drysuit to maintain neutral buoyancy.’
- 1.1Finance Invest in (a market sector, industry, etc.) to a greater than normal degree.‘we have overweighted the banking sector’
- ‘we were overweighted in technology last year’
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