obese
/əʊˈbiːs/US/oʊˈbis/
obese adjective: extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
Adjective
obese (comparative more obese or obeser, superlative most obese or obesest)
- Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
- The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19.2020 October 3, Peter Bowes, “Trump spends first night in hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis”, in BBC
- But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^([sic]) “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology.2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer
Noun
obese (plural obeses)
- A person who is obese.
- Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs.2009, Abdoulaye Ba, Stephane Delliaux, Fabienne Bregeon, Samuel Levy, Yves Jammes, “Post-exercise heart rate recovery in healthy, obeses, and COPD subjects: relationships with blood lactic acid and...
- Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in...
obese meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
obese in Hindi
- मोटापे से ग्रसित, मोटापे से ग्रस्त
obese in Tamil
- பருமனாக
obese in Urdu
- obese, fat, overweight
- چاق cāq
obese in Bengali
- অতিরিক্ত মোটা, স্থূলকায়
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- obese in Telugu
- ఊబ ūba, లావు lāvu, లావైన lāvaina
- obese in Malayalam
- പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള poṇṇattaṭiyuḷḷa, അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള amitavaṇṇamuḷḷa
- obese in Kannada
- ಬೊಜ್ಜುಮೈಯ, ಸ್ಥೂಲಕಾಯವುಳ್ಳ, ಬೊಜ್ಜುಬೆಳೆದ, ಬೊಜ್ಜು
- obese in Gujarati
- મેદસ્વી
- obese in Odia
- ମେଦବହୁଳ
- obese in Persian
- چاق čâq
- obese in Vietnamese
- béo phì
Examples of obese in a sentence
- The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.
- The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.
- Cryolipolysis does not appear to be as effective in obese patients or patients with excess skin laxity.
Synonyms of obese
- big-boned
- bulbous
- corpulent
- curvy
- Daniel Lambertish
- eurysome
- famine resistant
- gravitationally challenged
- horizontally challenged
- rotund
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Antonyms
Forms of obese
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more obese |
| comparative | obeser |
| superlative | most obese |
| superlative | obesest |
| Noun | |
| plural | obeses |
Origin of obese
From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“to eat”).
Words formed from obese
Words that rhyme with obese
Questions about obese
- What does obese mean?
- Obese means extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
- What is obese in Hindi?
- Obese in Hindi is मोटापे से ग्रसित, मोटापे से ग्रस्त. See Obese meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is obese?
- Obese can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce obese?
- Obese is pronounced /oʊˈbis/ (US).
Words near obese in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: obese (page history and authors); obese (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); obese (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); چاق (Urdu) (page history and authors); obese (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obese (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obese (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); obese (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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