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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having excessive body weight caused by the accumulation of fat; extremely fat. synonym: fat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Exceedingly corpulent; fat: fleshy.
  • In entomology, very much larger than usual; appearing as if distended with food, as the abdomen of a meloë or oil-beetle.
  • Specifically, of or pertaining to the Obesa.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective excessively fat

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin obēsus, from past participle of *obedere, to eat away : ob-, away; see ob– + edere, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin obesus, derived from obedere ("to devour, eat away"), from ob ("away") + edere ("to eat")

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Examples

  • The UK is on course to be the most obese nation in Europe by 2050 with 60\% of men and 50\% of women classed as obese* and surgical weight loss controls are becoming evermore popular.

    SourceWire Press Release Wire 2008

  • The UK is on course to be the most obese nation in Europe by 2050 with 60\% of men and 50\% of women classed as obese* and surgical weight loss controls are becoming evermore popular.

    SourceWire Press Release Wire 2008

  • The UK is on course to be the most obese nation in Europe by 2050 with 60\% of men and 50\% of women classed as obese* and surgical weight loss controls are becoming evermore popular.

    SourceWire Press Release Wire 2008

  • "I was just shocked to hear the word obese related to me."

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Doctors who use the word "obese" in their notes may risk alienating patients.

    NYT > Home Page By RONI CARYN RABIN 2012

  • Last year, she suggested doctors start bluntly telling their patients they were "fat" because it would have more "impact" than the word obese.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Erin Anderssen 2011

  • Doctors who use the word "obese" in their notes may risk alienating patients.

    NYT > Home Page By RONI CARYN RABIN 2012

  • And if a child is obese by the age of thirteen, he or she is likely to remain obese for life.

    Want to make a difference? You can! 2010

  • These results suggest that symptoms of ADHD are more common in obese individuals (irrespective of BED status) and that the D3 receptor may play a role in the manifestation of the hyperactive/impulsive symptoms of ADHD.

    Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Still More on ADHD and Obesity 2009

  • These studies show that compromised oocyte and early embryo mitochondrial metabolism, resulting from excessive nutrient exposure prior to and during conception, may underlie poor reproductive outcomes frequently reported in obese women.

    Maternal Excess Weight Stresses Oozytes | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes 2010

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