Overweight vs. Plump
Difference Between Overweight and Plump
Overweightadjective
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.
Plumpadjective
Well-rounded and full in form; chubby.
Overweightnoun
More weight than is normal, necessary, or allowed.
Plumpadjective
Abundant; ample
a plump reward.Overweightnoun
Greater weight or importance; preponderance.
Plumpadjective
Blunt; direct.
Overweightverb
To weigh down too heavily; overload.
Plumpverb
To make well-rounded or full in form
plumped up the pillows.Overweightverb
To give too much emphasis, importance, or consideration to.
Plumpverb
To become well-rounded, chubby, or full in form
The baby plumped out at three months.Overweightadjective
(of a person) Heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
Plumpverb
To drop abruptly or heavily
plumped into the easy chair.Overweightadjective
Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
Plumpverb
To give full support or praise
plumped for the candidate throughout the state.Overweightadjective
Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.Plumpverb
To throw down or drop (something) abruptly or heavily
plumped the books onto the table.Overweightnoun
An excess of weight.
Plumpnoun
A heavy or abrupt fall or collision.
Overweightnoun
A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
Apple common stock is one of our overweights.Plumpnoun
The sound of a heavy fall or collision.
Overweightverb
(transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
Plumpadverb
With a heavy or abrupt drop
The anchor fell plump into the sea.Overweightverb
(transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
Plumpadverb
With a full or sudden impact
walked plump into the pole.Overweightnoun
the property of excessive fatness
Plumpadverb
Directly
ran plump into an old friend.Overweightadjective
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
Plumpadverb
Without qualification; bluntly
spoke out plump for the tax bill.Plumpnoun
The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
Plumpnoun
(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
a plump of trees, fowls, or spearsPlumpadjective
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
a plump baby;plump cheeksPlumpadjective
Fat.
Plumpadjective
Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
Plumpverb
(intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
Her cheeks have plumped.Plumpverb
(transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish waterPlumpverb
(transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
to plump a stone into waterPlumpverb
(intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
Plumpverb
(transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
Plumpverb
(used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
Plumpverb
(intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
Plumpadverb
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Plumpnoun
the sound of a sudden heavy fall
Plumpverb
drop sharply;
The stock market plummetedPlumpverb
set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
He planked the money on the tableHe planked himself into the sofaPlumpverb
make fat or plump;
We will plump out that poor starving childPlumpverb
give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number;
I plumped for the losing candidatesPlumpadjective
euphemisms for slightly fat;
a generation ago...buxom actresses were popularchubby babiespleasingly plumpPlumpadverb
straight down especially heavily or abruptly;
the anchor fell plump into the seawe dropped the rock plump into the water
