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overfat

overfat adjective: having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.

Adjective

overfat (comparative more overfat, superlative most overfat)

  1. Having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.
    • Similarly, when compared to a person who is very fat, but who has less muscle and a smaller bone structure, the athlete may be of similar weight, but one will be overweight and the other overfat.2002, Tony Scott, Revise for PE GCSE: Edexcel, page 63
    • It seems that people with an ancestral history of enduring famines develop a tendency to store more body fat, becoming overfat even when they aren’t overweight.2025 June 17, Shane Duquette, Marco Walker-Ng, “What is Skinny Fat? And How to Know If You Are”, in Bony to Beastly, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025

Forms of overfat

comparativemore overfat
superlativemost overfat

Origin of overfat

From over- + fat.

Questions about overfat

What does overfat mean?
Overfat means having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.
What part of speech is overfat?
Overfat is an adjective.

Words near overfat in the dictionary

  1. overfastidious
  2. overfastidiously
  3. overfastidiousness
  4. overfasting
  5. overfasts
  6. overfat
  7. overfatigue
  8. overfatigued
  9. overfatigues
  10. overfatiguing
  11. overfatness

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