Thesaurus:overweight
THESAURUS | overweight |
English
Synonyms
- ample [WS]
- beer-bellied
- chubby
- chunky (slang)
- embonpoint
- fat [WS]
- flabby
- fleshy
- full-figured
- fulsome
- gorbellied (obsolete)
- gorrel-bellied (obsolete)
- love-handled
- meaty [WS]
- overnourished (euphemistic)
- paunchy
- pleasantly plump (slang)
- plump
- plus-size
- portly
- potbellied
- podgy
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- Rubenesque
- sonsy (British dialect)
- swagbellied
- thick
- tubby
- well-covered (British)
- well-padded
- well-rounded
- well-upholstered
- wide [WS]
Antonyms
- big [WS]
- bulky
- scrawny [WS]
- slender [WS]
- strapping [WS]
- thin
Hyponyms
- endomorphic
- obese [WS]
- voluptuous [WS]
- —
- beef to the hoof (Ireland, idiomatic)
Hypernyms
- great
- heavy
- heavyset
- heavyweight
- hefty
- large [WS]
- stocky [WS]
- stout
- thickset
- —
- physique [WS]
Various
- gelatinous [WS]
See also
- Thesaurus:fat
- Thesaurus:fat person
- Thesaurus:paunch
Further reading
- “192. size” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “overweight” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.