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What is the adjective for obesity?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb obesify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

obese
  1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Abdominally obese respondents were more often exhausted and experienced problems with sweating and depressive symptoms.”
      “There are widespread negative attitudes that adults who are morbidly obese are weak-willed, ugly, awkward, self-indulgent, and immoral.”
      “An apparently lean person, who is abdominally obese, could also develop diabetes.”
obesigenic
  1. Alternative form of obesogenic
  2. Examples:
    1. “Controlled study of critical parent and family factors in the obesigenic environment.”
      “This research builds on earlier animal studies suggesting that HFCS and sucrose can have different effects on body weight and obesigenic measures.”
obesogenic
  1. Causing obesity. [from 20th c.]
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ironically, the US's obesogenic environment is one that societies through the ages have dreamed of: tasty cheap food in abundance, and barely a lick of hard work to be done.”
      “Levelling out the obesogenic slope is fundamental to slowing down the momentum of the obesity epidemic.”
      “I agree with Guthrie that a less obesogenic environment for children has to be created.”
obesest
  1. superlative form of obese: most obese
obesified
obesifying
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