Thesaurus:obese

Thesaurus

obese

English

Adjective

Sense: extremely overweight

Synonyms

• big-boned (euphemistic)
• bulbous
• corpulent
• curvy (of women, sometimes euphemistic)
• Daniel Lambertish
• eurysome
• famine resistant (euphemistically humorous)
• gravitationally challenged (euphemistically humorous)
• horizontally challenged (euphemistically humorous)
• obese
• rotund
• round
• spherical

Derogatory:

• big as a house
• bloated
• blubbery (US)
• fat as a cow
• fat as a pig
• gross (US)
• lardy (slang)
• poddy
• porcine
• porky (slang)
• tubby (slang)

Antonyms

• scrawny    [⇒ thesaurus]
• thin
• emaciated
• anorexic
• starved
• willowy

Hyponyms

• morbidly obese
• superobese

Hypernyms

• fat    [⇒ thesaurus]
• heavyset
• overweight    [⇒ thesaurus] (often used coordinately rather than hypernymically)

Coordinate terms

• overweight    [⇒ thesaurus] (often used coordinately rather than hypernymically)

Various

• physique    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:fat person
• Thesaurus:paunch

Further reading

• “192. size” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “194. expansion” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “obese” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.