obese

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”). Displaced native Old English oferfǣtt (literally “overfat”).

adj

1. 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.
   The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19. October 3, 2020, Peter Bowes, “Trump spends first night in hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis”, in BBC
   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 “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology. 2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer

noun

1. A person who is obese.
   Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs. 2009, Abdoulaye Ba, Stephane Delliaux, Fabienne Bregeon, Samuel Levy, Yves Jammes, “Post-exercise heart rate recovery in healthy, obeses, and COPD subjects: relationships with blood lactic acid and PaO2 levels”, in Clinical Research in Cardiology, volume 98, number 1, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 52–58
   Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI. 2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men, SCIRJ