Obese

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obese \O*bese"\ a. [L. obesus eaten away, lean; also, that has
     eaten itself fat, fat, stout, p. p. of obedere to devour; ob
     (see {Ob-}) + edere to eat. See {Eat}.]
     Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obese
       adj : excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {weighty},
              {rotund}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "obese":
     adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny,
     burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat,
     fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
     imposing, lusty, meaty, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly,
     potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, square, squat,
     squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick-bodied,
     thickset, top-heavy, tubby, well-fed