| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| obese |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | o·bese |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -b s |
| ADJECTIVE: | Extremely fat; grossly overweight. See synonyms at fat. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin obsus, from past participle of *obedere, to eat away : ob-, away; see ob– + edere, to eat; see ed- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | o·besely —ADVERB
o·beseness —NOUN
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
