Crossword clues for obese
obese
- More than rotund
- Having a high BMI
- Hardly skinny
- Beyond zaftig
- Beyond husky
- At the high end of the scale?
- Well padded
- Way too flabby
- Unpleasantly plump?
- Too heavy
- Too fat
- Too big, weightwise
- Severely overweight
- Seriously chubby
- Ready for Weight Watchers
- Rather heavy
- Quite weighty
- Quite hefty
- Qualifying for sumo wrestling, e.g
- Portly, plus
- Past portly
- Past paunchy
- Overly fat
- Opposite of wasting away
- Not svelte
- Not merely plump
- Not merely chubby
- Not just pudgy
- Needing two seats, perhaps
- Needing two airline seats, say
- Needing to lose?
- More than overweight
- More than just pleasingly plump
- More than a little heavy
- Lipotropically challenged?
- Like Stout's Wolfe
- Like some intestinal bypass patients
- Like a competitor on ''The Biggest Loser''
- Like a candidate for lap band surgery
- In need of liposuction, perhaps
- Heavy and then some
- Having a body mass index of 30 or more
- Far too fleshy
- Far beyond zaftig
- Eligible for lap-band surgery, say
- Dietetically challenged
- Dangerously overweight
- Chubby plus
- Beyond fat
- Beyond chunky
- Word from the Latin for "devour"
- With much to lose?
- With a BMI 30 or higher
- What Santa Claus is
- Well beyond chubby
- Way too big for one's britches, say
- Way too big for one's britches
- Way too big
- Way past pudgy
- Way bigger than big
- Way beyond pleasingly plump
- Very weighty
- Very portly
- Unlike gymnasts
- Unhealthily heavy
- Too fed up?
- Too big, in a way
- Too big for one's breeches?
- Suited for sumo
- Suitable for a bariatrics study
- Sporting a beer belly
- Seriously corpulent
- Really, really overweight
- Really tipping the scales
- Really rotund
- Really moving the needle, in a way
- Ready to diet
- Ready to be downsized
- Rather round
- Rather chunky
- Rather big
- Qualifying for sumo
- Qualified to appear on "The Biggest Loser"
- Qualified for "The Biggest Loser"
- Profoundly round
- Pounded to the max?
- Potbellied plus
- Plus-sized, plus
- Past chunky
- Packing a lot of extra baggage, so to speak
- Overly pounded?
- Overly big
- Opposite of wasted
- Not slim
- Not merely tubby
- Not just tubby
- Not just stout
- Not just rotund
- Not just portly
- Not just heavy
- Not just corpulent
- Not just chubby
- Not at all good at losing?
- Much overweight
- Much more than chunky
- Much more than chubby
- More than slightly overweight
- More than merely big-boned
- More than just big
- More than a bit heavy
- Morbidly fat
- Morbidly adipose
- Long way from slim
- Literally, "eaten away"
- Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- Like the typical sumo wrestler
- Like the Kung Fu Panda
- Like the Comic Book Guy on "The Simpsons"
- Like Stout's Nero Wolfe
- Like someone with something to lose
- Like someone with a body mass index over 30
- Like someone with a body mass index above 30
- Like some with sedentary lifestyles
- Like some targets of weightists' biases
- Like some people with elevated BMI
- Like some binge eaters
- Like one looking into lap belt surgery
- Like one contemplating bariatric surgery
- Like one considering gastric banding, maybe
- Like Mrs. Spratt likely
- Like most weight loss reality show participants
- Like most humans in "WALL-E"
- Like many stage Falstaffs
- Like lap-band surgery candidates
- Like Jabba the Hut
- Like Gwyneth Paltrow's character in "Shallow Hal"
- Like Elvis, later on
- Like contestants at the start of "The Biggest Loser"
- Like Cleveland or Taft
- Like Bustopher Jones of "Cats"
- Like bodies in some "before" pictures
- Like Augustus Gloop
- Like a person whose BMI might be TMI
- Like a gastric bypass patient
- Like a dog that might go on the drug Slentrol
- Like a contestant auditioning to be on "The Biggest Loser"
- Like "The Biggest Loser" contestants, initially
- Like "The Biggest Loser" contestants
- Like "Extreme Weight Loss" contestants
- Large, in bariatrics
- Large and then some
- Jabba the Hutt descriptor
- In need of dieting
- In need of The Zone
- Heavy to the max
- Having plenty to lose
- Having lots to lose
- Having embonpoint
- Having a very high body mass index
- Having a high B.M.I., say
- Having a body mass index over 30, medically
- Having a BMI over 30
- Having a BMI of 30 or over
- Having a 56-inch waist, perhaps
- Hardly anorexic
- Grossly fat
- Greatly in need of a diet
- Frightfully fat
- Far from sylphlike
- Extra large?
- Endowed with flab
- Eligible for a gastric bypass
- Dramatically overweight
- Descriptor defined by the National Institutes of Health
- Dangerously corpulent
- Carrying too much weight
- Carrying a lot of weight
- Carrying a lot of extra baggage, so to speak
- Calorically challenged?
- Busting the scales
- Big, medically
- Big like Santa
- Beyond weighty
- Beyond rotund
- Beyond portly
- Beyond just chubby
- Beyond heavy
- Amply girthed
- Ample at the equator, say
- A lot more than pleasingly plump
- 30-something on the BMI scale
- Like Jabba the Hutt, of "Star Wars"
- More than fubsy
- With lots of rolls?
- More than fat
- Too plump
- More than flabby
- More than big
- More than plump
- More than tubby
- Wide-bodied
- Bigger than big
- Like most sumo wrestlers, weight-wise
- Portly plus
- Corpulent plus
- Having made substantial gains?
- "Equatorially" ample
- More than portly
- Having a lot to lose?
- Like Falstaff
- Portly and then some
- Needing to take off?
- Heavy-plus
- Bigger than 36-Down
- More than large
- Far from spare
- Overly overweight
- Way too weighty
- Like Henry VIII
- Needing to cut down
- Like a 500-pounder
- Not good at losing
- Not just fat
- Hard to miss
- Too big for one's britches?
- Overweight plus
- More than heavyset
- Really big
- Mighty big
- Beyond pudgy
- Fatter than fat
- Way overdue to take off?
- Overextended?
- Waist-ful?
- Scale-busting
- Past plump
- Very big
- Opposite of wasted away
- Way too heavy
- Packing way too much, in a way
- Much too big for one's britches?
- Overly large
- In need of middle management?
- Very upscale?
- Extremely upscale?
- Not just big
- Like many a sumo wrestler
- Struggling with middle management?
- Needing a seat belt extender, say
- Off-the-scale?
- Big, big, big
- Eligible for "The Biggest Loser"
- Too weighty
- Carrying a lot?
- Supersized
- Extra-fat
- Like "The Biggest Loser" contestants, to start
- Not just overweight
- Seriously overweight
- Like President Taft
- Overlarge
- Extra-large
- Jumbo-sized
- Way overweight
- Very heavy
- Extremely endomorphic
- Too big for one's britches, say?
- Like cartoondom's Peter Griffin or Chief Wiggum
- Having a lot to lose, maybe?
- Jabba-esque
- Like those who really have guts?
- Adipose
- Pinguid
- Plump plus
- Too chubby
- Owning a large corporation
- Far from svelte
- Falstaffian, in a way
- Unpleasingly plump
- Like Gordo of comics
- Pyknic
- Like Nero Wolfe
- Lardy
- On the heavy side
- Rotund plus
- Not merely pudgy
- More than pudgy
- Tubby and then some
- On the hefty side
- Like Cuddles Sakall
- Describing Falstaff
- More than chubby
- Greatly overweight
- Far from gaunt
- Needing a diet
- Stout
- Much too heavy
- Pudgy plus
- Far from frail
- Chubby and then some
- Pursy
- Endowed with embonpoint
- Roly-poly
- Out of shape
- Much too plump
- Hefty
- Heavy, plus
- Well-padded
- Of ample girth
- Plump and then some
- Not slender
- Like Sprat's wife?
- Well rounded
- Like Arbuckle
- Adjective for Arbuckle
- Very overweight
- Very heavy gongs with extra echo
- Very fat
- Very big wardrobes, excluding trousers
- Grossly overweight
- Clinically overweight
- Extremely fat
- Extra stout perhaps inside to be sensational
- Section of wardrobe seems large
- A sample of the Globe's exhibition stout
- Fat to be seared in part
- Live in very large house, at last - very large
- Large empty sphere over Easter regularly eaten
- Round globe - seafarer encircles it
- Rather large robes employed, but not all
- Party hosting Uzbekistan's first couple
- Bathrobe serving to conceal fat?
- Incubator's going to replace energy source and work without interruption
- Alumnus feasted regularly, appearing thus?
- Honours European owning large corporation?
- Unhealthily large hole on saint bitten by 24? ...
- Alumnus, having feasted regularly, appears thus?
- Quite overweight
- Like Humpty Dumpty
- Beyond beefy
- Very large
- Like contestants on "The Biggest Loser"
- Like Santa Claus
- Very stout
- Not just plump
- Beyond plump
- Far past plump
- Like sumo wrestlers
- Excessively fat
- With a lot to lose?
- Like Santa
- Like a sumo wrestler
- Extremely overweight
- Big, in bariatrics
- Beyond pleasantly plump
- Beyond chubby
- Quite large
- Quite heavy
- Pretty big
- Hardly svelte
- Past pudgy
- More than chunky
- More than a little plump
- Like Sherman Klump
- Humpty Dumpty-like
- With a BMI over 30
- Too tubby
- Quite big
- Like St. Nick
- Like a competitor on "The Biggest Loser"
- In need of a diet
- Having a high body mass index
- Far from slim
- Beyond overweight
- Beyond big
- With a lot to lose
- With a high BMI
- Way past plump
- Unhealthily overweight
- Tipping the scales
- Quite rotund
- Overly heavy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obese \O*bese"\ a. [L. obesus eaten away, lean; also, that has eaten itself fat, fat, stout, p. p. of obedere to devour; ob (see Ob-) + edere to eat. See Eat.] Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, back-formation from obesity and in part from Latin obesus "fat, stout, plump," past participle of obedere "that has eaten itself fat" (see obesity). According to OED, "Rare before 19th c." Related: Obeseness. Latin obesus was translated in Old English as oferfæt "overfat."
Wiktionary
a. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.
WordNet
Usage examples of "obese".
He focused on the dot, and the dot became a huge, obese aquatic creature, a creature whose blubbery hide, tusks, and skin suited it for this frozen hell, who probably thought the weather a pleasant spring freshet.
Recently a hysterectomy patient-an obese woman who had developed a big pus pocket at the bottom of her incision, right above the pubic area-was tranfferred from the gynie floor.
Those who had taken Kenna as an obese caricature of a stupid, crooked pol over the years had generally not survived in the political arena long enough to correct their thinking.
To be sure, they are less sharply black and white than those of the Atlantic, but they are shearwaters for all that - the same voice by night in their burrows, the same solitary white egg, the same grossly obese chick.
The door slammed behind the obese man, and Dora scurried to fetch what Ruark had requested, setting out fruits, bread, and meats, while she brewed a pot of strong tea.
She was not heavy enough to be considered obese in the eyes of the world, but was merely plump enough to feel ugly inside, especially in comparison to her sleek and stylish mother, the great Italian-born couturiere, Nita Serritella.
I saw the bulging face of the jumbo jet was that it looked like an obese or edematous gomer.
The purpose of this assassination was to tip the balance of power in this city of Ardha in favor of the Assassins, whose lord and chief, the obese and unscrupulous Gurjan Tor, had ambitions of extending his invisible empire in a reign of terror which would bring even the Crown of Ardha within his greedy clutches.
Two of the other nurses and I were getting a very obese lady out of bed when she almost completely gorked out.
He was a huge Rastafarian who looked like nothing so much as an obese and enormous baby.
When the time came for the huge coordinated revolt to begin across the Old Empire, Xerxes had killed his obese father, the nominal ruler of the planet, and turned over the full resources of Rodale IX to the Twenty Titans.
The obese Staffordshire bull terrier waddled in, closely followed by the Yorkie, who bared her teeth in an ingratiating smile at all present.
One of the free fallers, an obese woman, maneuvered toward the window.
A furious struggle ensued and the mutant with the two heads turned its obese body towards the aggressors, emitting a high-pitched mewling sound.
Sleep apnea occurs about 4 times more often in obese children and in African-American children than in other children.