Definition of "overweight" []

• Weighing more than is normal, necessary, or allowed, especially having more body weight than is considered normal or healthy for one's age or build. (adjective)
• More weight than is normal, necessary, or allowed. (noun)
• Greater weight or importance; preponderance. (noun)
• To weigh down too heavily; overload. (verb-transitive)
• To give too much emphasis, importance, or consideration to. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""I don't know that I'm a good fit for the Food Network," she says, "but I'm a good fit, I feel like, for what I call the overweight community - which I still feel a part of.""
• "Probably much of what we dislike in men who reject women because they're overweight is that they treat it like a deal-breaker: they refuse to even GET TO KNOW a woman, or talk to her, just because of how she looks."
• "You bore the brunt of my frustration with the fact that every time a post about fat-shaming gets put up on Feministing, somebody has to come in and say, "But being overweight is unhealthy!""