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Webster 1913 Edition

Obese

O-bese′

.

Adj.

[L.

obesus

eaten away, lean; also, that has eaten itself fat, fat, stout, p. p. of

obedere

to devour;

ob

(see

) +

edere

to eat. See

.]

Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.

Webster 1828 Edition

Obese

OBE'SE

,

Adj.

[L. obesus.] Fat; fleshy. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

obese

obese

See also: obèse

English

Adjective

obese ‎(comparative more obese, superlative most obese)

Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:obese

Derived terms

Translations

extremely overweight

Armenian: չաղ (hy) ‎(čʿał)
Bashkir: һимеҙ ‎(himeð)
Catalan: obès (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) ‎(féipàng)
Czech: obézní (cs)
Danish: fed
Dutch: obees, vetzuchtig, diklijvig
Finnish: liikalihava, obeesi
French: obèse (fr)
Georgian: მსუქანი ‎(msukani)
German: fettleibig (de), fettsüchtig (de), korpulent (de)
Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) ‎(pachýsarkos)
Hungarian: túlsúlyos (hu), elhízott (hu)
Italian: obeso (it) corpulento (it) m
Japanese: 肥満 (ja) ‎(ひまん, himan)
Korean: 뚱뚱한 ‎(ttungttunghan)

Latin: obēsus
Macedonian: дебел m ‎(debel), угоен m ‎(ugoen), згоен m ‎(zgoen)
Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള ‎(poṇṇattaṭiyuḷḷa), അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള ‎(amitavaṇṇamuḷḷa)
Norwegian: korpulent (no)
Persian: چاق (fa) ‎(čâq)
Polish: otyły (pl) m
Portuguese: obeso (pt)
Romanian: obez (ro)
Russian: то́лстый (ru) ‎(tólstyj), по́лный (ru) ‎(pólnyj), ту́чный (ru) ‎(túčnyj), (impolite) жи́рный (ru) ‎(žírnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: gȍjāzan (sh), prètio (sh)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: syty
Spanish: obeso (es)
Telugu: ఊబ (te) ‎(ūba) (ఊబకాయం, ఊబ ఒళ్ళు, స్థూలకాయం), లావు (te) ‎(lāvu), లావైన (te) ‎(lāvaina)
Turkish: obez (tr)
Uzbek: semiz (uz)
Welsh: corffol, gordew, corffog

See also

fat

Italian

Adjective

obese

feminine plural of obeso

Noun

obese f

plural of obesa

Latin

Participle

obēse

vocative masculine singular of obēsus