Overweight and Thin

Overweight

Overweight adjective - Having an excess of body fat.
Usage example: an overweight person who had difficulty running even a short distance

Thin is an antonym for overweight in topics: fat, heavier than average.

Nearby Words: overweighted, overweighting

Thin

Thin adjective - Having a noticeably small amount of body fat.
Usage example: after her bout with pneumonia, she looked thinner

Overweight is an antonym for thin in thick topic.

Nearby Words: thinned, thinly, thinness, thinning

Both words in one sentence

  • The plan works — when Thanksgiving arrives the turkey is as thin as a reed and Daffy is massively overweight.
  • Fat and Skinny Take note that TheNostalgiaChick is not thin as a rake, nor is Nella terribly overweight◊.
  • You Are Fat Usually used to show the pettiness of the insulter; if the person they're criticising is in fact rather thin, it comes off as desperate, and if they are a bit overweight, it just seems cruel.
    Source: You Are Fat
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