overweight
/ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
adj
Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
adj
Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
Example Sentences
- "Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months."
- "All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads."
- "He got as far as the first weigh station, where troopers found his truck to be overweight and threatened to pull him off the road."
- "The records did not reveal any previous encounters with severe turbulence. The three major alterations/repairs involving the wing were either far outboard of the strut wing station, or were performed on the right wing. Two overweight landings had been recorded since the aircraft was put into service with Evergreen. In both cases, an inspection of the airplane was accomplished in accordance with the Boeing Maintenance Manual."
- "Postaccident examination of the vehicle indicated, for example, that the driver had not adequately maintained his logbook and that his vehicle had been overweight for travel in Indiana."
- "Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English weight English overweight From over- + weight.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
- British English: /ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more overweight (comparative)
most overweight (superlative)
overweights (plural)
overweights (present, singular)
overweighting (participle, present)
overweighted (participle, past)
overweighted (past)