obese
/oʊˈbis/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
noun
A person who is obese.
Example Sentences
- "The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19."
- "But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^([sic]) “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology."
- "Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs."
- "Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₁ed-, obēsus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /oʊˈbis/
- British English: /əʊˈbiːs/
Inflected Forms
more obese (comparative)
obeser (comparative)
most obese (superlative)
obesest (superlative)
obeses (plural)