different between overweight vs thick

English

Etymology

over- +? weight

Pronunciation

• (adjective):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???v??we?t/
  • (US) enPR: ?'v?r-w?t?, IPA^(key): /?o?v??we?t/
• (noun):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???v?we?t/
  • (US) enPR: ??v?r-w?t, IPA^(key): /?o?v?we?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

overweight (comparative more overweight, superlative most overweight)

1. (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
2. (transport, law, of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
   • 1988, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment, ?ISBN, page 38,

     All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.

   • 1993, Legacy in the Sand: Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm, ?ISBN, page 74,

     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.

   • 1998, Collision of Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Train 102, ?ISBN, page 48,

     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.

3. (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

   Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.

Synonyms

• (of a person): fat, morbidly obese, obese, overnourished (often euphemistic)
• See also Thesaurus:obese

Antonyms

• underweight

Translations

Noun

overweight (countable and uncountable, plural overweights)

1. (uncountable, chiefly transport, law) An excess of weight.
   • 1976, Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana, volume 1, page 445:
2. (uncountable, healthcare) The condition of being overweight.

   • […] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense; […]

   • 2007, Josephine Martin, Charlotte Oakley, Managing child nutrition programs: leadership for excellence, page 462:

     SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT

3. (countable) An overweight person.
4. (countable, investment, finance) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

   Apple common stock is one of our overweights.

Synonyms

• (of a person): adiposity, obesity

Antonyms

• underweight

Translations

Verb

overweight (third-person singular simple present overweights, present participle overweighting, simple past and past participle overweighted)

1. (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
2. (transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of. [from 17th c.]

Antonyms

• underweight

English

Alternative forms

• (meme slang: curvy): thicc

Etymology

From Middle English thicke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkw?, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?k
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian) IPA^(key): /??k/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Adjective

thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)

1. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

   Synonyms: broad; see also Thesaurus:wide

   Antonyms: slim, thin; see also Thesaurus:narrow
2. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

3. Heavy in build; thickset.

   Synonyms: chunky, solid, stocky, thickset

   Antonyms: slender, slight, slim, svelte, thin; see also Thesaurus:slender

4. Densely crowded or packed.

   Synonyms: crowded, dense, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact

   Antonyms: sparse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse

5. Having a viscous consistency.

   Synonyms: glutinous, viscous; see also Thesaurus:viscous

   Antonyms: free-flowing, runny; see also Thesaurus:runny

6. Abounding in number.

   Synonyms: overflowing, swarming, teeming; see also Thesaurus:plentiful

   Antonyms: scant, scarce, slight

7. Impenetrable to sight.

   Synonyms: dense, opaque, solid; see also Thesaurus:opaque

   Antonyms: thin, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent

8. (Of an accent) Prominent, strong.
   1. Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.

   2. Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.

      Synonyms: unclear; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible

      Antonyms: clear, lucid; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible

9. (informal) Stupid.

   Synonyms: dense, (informal) dumb, stupid, (taboo slang) thick as pigshit, (slang) thick as two short planks; see also Thesaurus:stupid

   Antonyms: (informal) brainy, intelligent, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent

10. (informal) Friendly or intimate.

    Synonyms: (UK, informal) chummy, close, close-knit, friendly, (informal) pally, intimate, tight-knit

    Antonym: unacquainted

    • 1859, Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse

      Jem is a tall, good-looking fellow, as old as I am, and that's twenty-one last birthday; we came into the office together years ago, and have been very thick ever since

11. Deep, intense, or profound.

    Synonyms: great, extreme

12. (Britain, dated) troublesome; unreasonable
    • 1969 Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 288:

      "Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the '80s."

14. (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:voluptuous

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)

1. In a thick manner.

   Snow lay thick on the ground.

2. Frequently or numerously.

   The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

Translations

Noun

thick (plural thicks)

1. The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

   • He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.

2. A thicket.

   • gloomy thicks
3. (slang) A stupid person; a fool.

Derived terms

• in the thick of
• through thick and thin

Translations

Verb

thick (third-person singular simple present thicks, present participle thicking, simple past and past participle thicked)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To thicken.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:thicken