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overweight
[ adjective oh-ver-weyt; noun oh-ver-weyt; verb oh-ver-weyt ]
adjective
- weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.:
overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
noun
overweight
adjective
- weighing more than is usual, allowed, or healthy
- finance
- having a higher proportion of one's investments in a particular sector of the market than the size of that sector relative to the total market would suggest: portfolio managers are currently overweight in bonds
- (of a fund etc) invested disproportionately in this way
noun
- extra or excess weight
- archaic.greater importance or effect
verb
- to give too much emphasis or consideration to
- to add too much weight to
- to weigh down
Word History and Origins
Origin of overweight1
Example Sentences
Especially in the U.S., where fast food restaurants are abundant and two-thirds of people are overweight or obese.
“The first version looked exactly like Rand, but he was about 50 pounds overweight,” Stinnett laughed.
I would have put him in the film even if he stayed overweight.
But I absolutely hate talking to patients about being overweight.
When students are overweight or obese, well-balanced meals are especially important.
In this particular case you forget that you asked the Question whether your letters were not overweight.
While it is dangerous to be under weight in the early years of life, it is at least as dangerous to be overweight in middle life.
You can count on the fingers of one hand all the really overweight ones you ever knew.
They are usually overweight, and there is need to reduce the amount they eat.
If he is not distinctly overweight this will do harm rather than good.
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