overweight
n.n. weighing more than what is considered healthy or normal for your body size. It is a polite way to describe someone who is heavy.
n. weighing more than is generally considered healthy or appropriate for a given height and age. Often used as a clinical or neutral descriptor to avoid more pejorative terms.
The doctor told him he is slightly overweight.
Health professionals use the body mass index to determine if a patient is medically overweight or within a healthy range.
While the term is frequently used in medical contexts to assess risk factors, many researchers argue that being overweight does not always correlate directly with poor metabolic health.
From over- + weight.
Often follows a linking verb like 'be' or 'become'; can also be used as a noun in formal medical or insurance contexts to refer to the condition itself.