overweight

Meanings

Adjective

• Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
• Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
• Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

Noun

• An excess of weight.
• The condition of being overweight.
• An overweight person.
• A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

Verb

• To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
• To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

Related

Similar words

• fat, morbidly obese, obese, overnourished
• adiposity, obesity

Opposite words

• underweight

Origin

• over- + weight