Many Americans are obese.
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Obese
//oʊˈbis//
Synonyms for "obese" (82 found)
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3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
74 translations across 42 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تخين adj (extremely overweight)
- سمين adj (extremely overweight)
Armenian
1 entries- չաղ adj (extremely overweight)
Bashkir
1 entries- һимеҙ adj (extremely overweight)
Bulgarian
1 entries- прекалено дебел adj (extremely overweight)
Catalan
1 entries- obès adj (extremely overweight)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎦᎵᏦᎯᏓ adj (extremely overweight)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 肥胖 adj (extremely overweight)
Czech
1 entries- obézní adj (extremely overweight)
Danish
1 entries- fed adj (extremely overweight)
Dutch
3 entries- diklijvig adj (extremely overweight)
- obees adj (extremely overweight)
- vetzuchtig adj (extremely overweight)
Finnish
3 entries- liikalihava adj (extremely overweight)
- obeesi adj (extremely overweight)
- liikalihava noun (Translations)
French
1 entries- obèse adj (extremely overweight)
Galician
1 entries- obeso adj (extremely overweight)
Georgian
1 entries- მსუქანი adj (extremely overweight)
German
4 entries- adipös adj (extremely overweight)
- fettleibig adj (extremely overweight)
- fettsüchtig adj (extremely overweight)
- Adipöse noun (Translations)
Greek
1 entries- παχύσαρκος adj (extremely overweight)
Hungarian
2 entries- elhízott adj (extremely overweight)
- obez adj (extremely overweight)
Italian
1 entries- obeso corpulento adj (extremely overweight)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- mampy adj (extremely overweight)
Japanese
1 entries- 肥満 adj (extremely overweight)
Korean
1 entries- 뚱뚱한 adj (extremely overweight)
Latin
2 entries- corpulentus adj (extremely overweight)
- obēsus adj (extremely overweight)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- syty adj (extremely overweight)
Macedonian
3 entries- дебел adj (extremely overweight)
- згоен adj (extremely overweight)
- угоен adj (extremely overweight)
Malayalam
2 entries- അമിതവണ്ണമുള്ള adj (extremely overweight)
- പൊണ്ണത്തടിയുള്ള adj (extremely overweight)
Norwegian
1 entries- korpulent adj (extremely overweight)
Occitan
2 entries- bombut adj (extremely overweight)
- obès adj (extremely overweight)
Old English
1 entries- oferfǣtt adj (extremely overweight)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- سمیز adj (extremely overweight)
- شیشمان adj (extremely overweight)
Persian
1 entries- چاق adj (extremely overweight)
Polish
3 entries- otyły adj (extremely overweight)
- otyła noun (Translations)
- otyły noun (Translations)
Portuguese
1 entries- obeso adj (extremely overweight)
Romanian
3 entries- obez adj (extremely overweight)
- obez noun (Translations)
- obeză noun (Translations)
Russian
4 entries- жи́рный adj (extremely overweight)
- по́лный adj (extremely overweight)
- то́лстый adj (extremely overweight)
- ту́чный adj (extremely overweight)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gȍjāzan adj (extremely overweight)
- prètio adj (extremely overweight)
Spanish
1 entries- obeso adj (extremely overweight)
Telugu
3 entries- ఊబ adj (extremely overweight)
- లావు adj (extremely overweight)
- లావైన adj (extremely overweight)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kraupalñetstse adj (extremely overweight)
Turkish
1 entries- obez adj (extremely overweight)
Uzbek
1 entries- semiz adj (extremely overweight)
Vietnamese
1 entries- béo phì adj (extremely overweight)
Welsh
3 entries- corffog adj (extremely overweight)
- corffol adj (extremely overweight)
- gordew adj (extremely overweight)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
BMI categories (underweight, overweight or obese) from general reading table are inappropriate for athletes, children, the elderly, and the infirm.
Source: tatoeba (1131481)
A study found that almost 10% of men were obese in 2008. That was up from about 5% in 1980.
Source: tatoeba (1141310)
Woe to those who are obese in a society where slimness is the norm.
Source: tatoeba (2146081)
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