Thesaurus:obese

Thesaurus:obese

THESAURUS

obese

English

Synonyms

• big as a house

• big-boned

• bloated

• bulbous

• corpulent

• curvy (of women)

• eurysome

• famine resistant (euphemistic or humorous)

• fat as a cow

• fat as a pig

• gravitationally challenged

• horizontally challenged

• obese

• poddy

• porcine

• rotund

• round

• spherical

Derogatory:

• blubbery (US)

• gross (US)

• lardy (slang)

• porky (slang)

• tubby (slang)

Antonyms

• scrawny    [WS]

• thin

• emaciated

• anorexic

• starved

• willowy

Hyponyms

• morbidly obese

• superobese

Hypernyms

• fat    [WS]

• overweight    [WS]

• physique    [WS]

See also

• Thesaurus:fat person
• Thesaurus:paunch

Further reading

• “192. size” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “194. expansion” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “obese” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.