Synonyms of obese

obese

adjective

ō-ˈbēs 

as in plump

having an excess of body fat

the basset hound was so obese that its stomach touched the floor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plump
• fat
• overweight
• round
• full
• chubby
• corpulent
• pudgy
• husky
• rotund
• stout
• tubby
• gross
• lardy
• thick
• portly
• fleshy
• blubbery
• podgy
• heavy
• ripe
• replete
• roly-poly
• heavyset
• bulky
• stocky
• squat
• beefy
• thickset
• burly
• soft
• plumpish
• potbellied
• paunchy
• dumpy
• flabby
• chunky
• brawny
• stubby
• weighty
• hippy
• buxom
• hefty
• endomorphic
• ample
• corn-fed
• zaftig
• zoftig

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• skinny
• lean
• thin
• slender
• slim
• bony
• gaunt
• lanky
• skeletal
• angular
• spare
• emaciated
• sinewy
• haggard
• lank
• rawboned
• scrawny
• wasted
• cadaverous
• pinched
• puny
• slight
• weedy
• scraggy
• svelte
• willowy
• boney
• anorexic
• stringy
• spindly
• waspish
• reedy
• rangy
• twiggy
• sylphlike
• ectomorphic
• spindling

Examples of obese in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Though Novo and Lilly are now going head-to-head with obesity treatments in a number of markets, including Britain and Germany, the most lucrative one by far is the US, where more than 70% of adults are obese or overweight. —Reuters, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024

The large study, which preceded the pandemic and ran through it, was carried out on over 17,600 people who were overweight or obese and who suffered from heart illnesses, but not diabetes. —Jenni Reid, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2024

Thirty six of the participants were obese; 52 were normal weight. —Linda Carroll, NBC News, 28 June 2024

Medicare, the federal health program for adults 65 and older, is prohibited by law from covering drugs for the more than 2 in 5 Americans who are obese but otherwise do not have serious risk factors. —Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024