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overweight

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overweight \O"ver*weight"\, a. Overweighing; excessive. [Obs.] ``Of no overweight worth.'' --Fuller. Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected; as, the doctor recommends dieting to all his overweight patients; overweight ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Within the stock market, the term overweight can refer to two different contexts. 1) Overweight as part of a three-tiered rating system, along with " underweight " and "equal weight", is used by financial analysts to indicate a particular stock's attractiveness. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES grossly overweight ▪ Lambert was grossly overweight . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB grossly ▪ In the inevitable lecture series that followed, few would be intrigued by a grossly overweight , fortyish prude. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context of a person English) heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height. 2 (context transportation legal of a vehicle English) weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce 3 (context investment ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"in excess of proper or ordinary weight," 1630s, from over- + weight (n.). Of persons, as a noun, "obesity" from 1917.

Usage examples of overweight.

The bespeckled, pimply-faced, overweight, underweight, dateless, womanless, goofiest of the goofy, were the undisputed, unchallenged kings of the entire freaking Valley!

When he reached them, though, he discovered the senior officer there was an overage, overweight captain named Rudninku, whose command consisted of three understrength companies.

I said, nodding toward a bald, overweight man in his mid-forties eating a bagel with scallion cream cheese.

Pansy Stalder was forty-eight years old, had long stringy red hair, was fifty pounds overweight causing her to waddle when she walked and wore dresses that were too short and too tight.

Yvonne was twenty-five, slightly overweight but cheerful and at299 tractive, with long blond hair, innocent blue eyes and a milk-androses skin.

There was an assortment of shapes, too: deranged trapezoids, overweight butterflies, giant beer cans.

Medium height, thick build which might show overweight but for the superb cut of his uniform, Beaumont made an imposing figure.

From that vantage point, he saw a pitifully overweight man, the flesh hanging sad inches over his beltline, more than just pudgy, shadowing into obesity, promising heart disease and kidney weakness, and all of the other flesh failures that obesity brought into existence.

And now look at him: a boozy, bemedaled, overweight ghost of an officer.

Anyone sharp-eyed enough to have caught sight of the occupants of the Mercedes that evening as it sped through the centre of Fettlesham in the direction of Fettlesham Royal Infirmary would have thought they were hallucinating: an ageing German admiral with a handlebar moustache was at the wheel of the car, a heavily bemedalled SS officer was in the passenger seat, and an overweight nun with crimson lips and sky-blue eye-shadow was sitting in the back gesticulating.

A courtship was taking place in front of her, between her little bald gynecologist and her overweight movie-star friend in the middle of the worst crisis of her life, and neither one of them cared about her.

He was overweight, and despite the fact that he was smooth on top, the hairiest man Carlos had ever seen.

Knoxville before being toppled by the usual blow scandal, fed her the questions and gave orders to their cameraman, the aging, overweight hepcat Barney Lumpen, forty-three, who could do all that stuff in his sleep and never listened to the interviews.

Ortega was short and slightly overweight, his stocky frame and broad, high-cheekboned face reflecting his Slavic and Mesoamerican ancestry.

In the same study, overweight but nondiabetic individuals had a 40 percent decrease in their elevated insulin levels.