overweight

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Definitions

noun

An excess of weight.
An overweight person.
(investment) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.“Apple common stock is one of our overweights.”

verb

To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

adjective

(of a person) Heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
(of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
(investment, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.“Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.”

Related words

Synonyms

fat morbidly obese obese overnourished corpulence fleshy heavy stoutness adiposis plump obesity bulge big overhang excessive excess surplus preponderance

Antonyms

Associated

underweight bmi balding diabetes adolescents hypertension unfit stigma weight lazy

Rhymes

elucidate articulate desolate facilitate profligate explicate deliberate delineate ruminate innate

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