overweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
enpr: ō'vər-wātʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəweɪt/
enpr: ōʹvər-wāt
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: more overweight
form: most overweight
Etymology: From over- + weight.
Senses: examples: text: Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.
glosses: Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.
ref: 1988, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment, →ISBN, page 38:
text: He got as far as the first weigh station, where troopers found his truck to be overweight and threatened to pull him off the road.
ref: 1993, Legacy in the Sand: Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm, →ISBN, page 74:
text: The records did not reveal any previous encounters with severe turbulence. The three major alterations/repairs involving the wing were either far outboard of the strut wing station, or were performed on the right wing. Two overweight landings had been recorded since the aircraft was put into service with Evergreen. In both cases, an inspection of the airplane was accomplished in accordance with the Boeing Maintenance Manual.
ref: 1993 October 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.17.1 Maintenance Records”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Engine Separation, Japan Airlines, Inc., Flight 46E, Boeing 747-121, N473EV, Anchorage, Alaska, March 31, 1993, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022, page 26:
text: Postaccident examination of the vehicle indicated, for example, that the driver had not adequately maintained his logbook and that his vehicle had been overweight for travel in Indiana.
ref: 1999 July 26, National Transportation Safety Board, “Operator Actions”, in Railroad Accident Report: Collision of Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Train 102 With a Tractor-Trailer, Portage, Indiana, June 18, 1998, →ISBN, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022, page 48:
topics: law
transport
glosses: Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
examples: text: Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.
topics: business
finance
investment
glosses: Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
raw_tags: followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security
Synonyms: sense: of a person
word: fat
sense: of a person
word: morbidly obese
sense: of a person
word: obese
sense: of a person
word: overnourished
word: ample
word: beer-bellied
word: big
word: bulky
word: chubby
word: chunky
word: embonpoint
word: flabby
word: fleshy
word: full-figured
word: fulsome
word: gorbellied
word: gorrel-bellied
word: heavyset
word: love-handled
word: meaty
word: paunchy
word: pleasantly plump
word: plump
word: plus-size
word: portly
word: potbellied
word: podgy
word: pudgy
word: roly-poly
word: rotund
word: Rubenesque
word: sonsy
word: swagbellied
word: thick
word: tubby
word: well-covered
word: well-padded
word: well-rounded
word: well-upholstered
word: wide
Hypernyms: word: great
word: heavy
word: heavyweight
word: hefty
word: large
word: stocky
word: stout
word: thickset
word: physique
Hyponyms: word: endomorphic
word: obese
word: voluptuous
word: beef to the hoof
Derived terms: overweightness
Related terms: word: gelatinous
word: fat person
word: paunch