Crossword-Solution: OBESE 5 letters, 577 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Obese	a.	Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
OBESE	anagram	EBOES

We have 577 clues for the answer “OBESE”

Clue	Answers
"Big-boned"	1 answer
"Equatorially" ample	1 answer
"Why Geese Don't Get ___ (And We Do)" (pop science book)	1 answer
30-something on the BMI scale	1 answer
A lot more than pleasingly plump	1 answer
Adjective for Arbuckle	1 answer
Adjective for Falstaff.	1 answer
Ample at the equator, say	1 answer
Amply girthed	1 answer
At the high end of the scale	1 answer
Beefy and then some	1 answer
Beyond beefy	1 answer
Beyond chubby	1 answer
Beyond chunky	1 answer
Beyond fat	1 answer
Beyond heavy	1 answer
Beyond husky	1 answer
Beyond just chubby	1 answer
Beyond overweight	1 answer
Beyond plump	1 answer
Beyond portly	1 answer
Beyond pudgy	1 answer
Beyond rotund	1 answer
Beyond weighty	1 answer
Beyond zaftig	1 answer
Big like Santa	1 answer
Big, in bariatrics	1 answer
Big, medically	1 answer
Heavily overweight, in medical terms	1 answer
Built round?	1 answer
Busting the scales	1 answer
Calorically challenged?	1 answer
Carrying a lot of extra baggage, so to speak	1 answer
Carrying a lot of weight	1 answer
Chubby and then some	1 answer
Chubby, to say the least.	1 answer
Chunky to the max	1 answer
Corpulent plus	1 answer
Dangerously heavy	1 answer
Dangerously overweight	1 answer
Describing Falstaff	1 answer
Describing Jack Sprat's spouse.	1 answer
Descriptive of Falstaff.	1 answer
Descriptor defined by the National Institutes of Health	1 answer
Dietetically challenged	1 answer
Dramatically overweight	1 answer
Eligible for "The Biggest Loser"	1 answer
Eligible for a gastric bypass	1 answer
Eligible for bariatric surgery, likely	1 answer
Eligible for lap-band surgery, say	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ARTEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with OBESE (5)

Coutras had gone one day to Taravao in order to see an old chiefess who was ill, and he gave a vivid picture of the obese old lady, lying in a huge bed, smoking cigarettes, and surrounded by a crowd of dark-skinned retainers.

The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995

Behrman! Presley saw him plainly, huge, rotund, white; saw his jowl tremulous and obese, the roll of fat over his collar sprinkled with sparse hairs, the great stomach with its brown linen vest and heavy watch chain of hollow links, clinking against the buttons of imitation pearl.

The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

Interspersed with these sheets were others in which Sloper, the urban John Bull, had his fling with gin bottle and obese umbrella, or the kindly empty faces of the Royal Family appeared and reappeared, visiting this, opening that, getting married, getting offspring, lying in state, doing everything but anything, a wonderful, good-meaning, impenetrable race apart.

Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells 1996

Still, the porter of that institution is of an obese habit, and, according to the best of my observation of him, not very impressible.

Speeches of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens 2014

The neck was drawn out like a plucked chicken’s, making the rest of him seem the more obese and unnatural by the contrast.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1997

Quotes with OBESE (3)

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Banksy

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have... undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery. I am so tired of saying no, waking up in the morning and recalling every single thing I ate the day before, counting every calorie I consumed so I know just how much self loathing to take into the shower. I'm going for it. I hav…

Elizabeth Gilbert

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,008 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).