Difference between Overweight and Heavy

What is the difference between Overweight and Heavy?

Overweight as an adjective is heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height. while Heavy as an adjective is having great weight.

Overweight

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height. weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An excess of weight.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place excessive weight or emphasis on

Example sentence: When I see out-of-shape, overweight people huffing and puffing in the gym, my eyes well up with tears of pride. I want to walk over to them, hug them, and say, 'Good on you for getting in here. It gets better!' You know why? Because they're challenging themselves.

Heavy

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having great weight.Serious, somber.good.Profound.High, great.armed.louder, more distortedhot and humiddoing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.high in fat or protein; difficult to digest.Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense;laden to a great extent.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations.

Example sentence: We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

We hope you now know whether to use Overweight or Heavy in your sentence.

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