Obese
[ə(ʊ)'biːs] or [o'bis]
Definition
(a.) Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.
Typist: Wanda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fat, fleshy, corpulent, stout, plump, portly, bouncing.
Typed by Gilda
Definition
adj. fat: fleshy.—ns. Obese′ness Obes′ity fatness: abnormal fatness.
Editor: Verna
Examples
- Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The neck was drawn out like a plucked chicken's, making the rest of him seem the more obese and unnatural by the contrast. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Verna