Vocabulary: Obese, Fat or Overweight

Students often confuse the words: obese, fat and overweight. This lesson will explain the difference between these words so that you learn to use them correctly.

IELTS often has questions in both writing and speaking about the problems of eating fast food or problems with the modern diet. Making mistakes with these words is common and will damage your band score.

  • Obesity (n) / Obese (adj) = a medical condition when excess body fat has accumulated and can have a negative impact on a persons health by contributing to health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes or kidney problems. This term is often used incorrectly and is only used in extreme cases when a person’s weight is a serious health concern and is labelled as a medical condition.
  • Overweight (n) / Overweight (adj) = weighing more than is considered normal or more than is optimally healthy and can cause some health concerns depending on how overweight a person is. This is neither negative or positive in meaning and is just a statement of a person’s size.
  • Fat = being larger than normal. This is used informally to describe people who are considered larger than average. It is not a polite term to use and can be offensive to people.

Practice Vocabulary Questions

Fill in the sentences below with the correct word listed above. Make sure you use the correct form of the word. A word may be used more than once.

  1. Many people who have a sedentary lifestyle are …………………. because they do not participate in regular exercise.
  2. My next door neighbour got quite ………… when she went to live in America for a year. I think she ate fast food most the time.
  3. 14 million children worldwide under the age of 5 were either overweight or ………….. in 2016.
  4. Worldwide ………… has nearly tripled since 1975.
  5. It is easy for people to become ……………….. if they do not eat a healthy diet.

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  75. Bharat says

    Hi Liz,
    You are doing great service to the students. Appreciate all your efforts. I have a question in listening, hope you will help me.
    Question type — short answer no more than 3 words
    Question : how often will the students have to write essays?

    In recording the speaker says “you will have to write one essay each week ”

    What should be the answer in this case.
    A. As we hear in the recording do we have to use the same words “one each week ”
    B. Weekly
    C. Once a week
    D. Every week.

    Thankyou.

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  103. Sanker says

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  106. Tommy says

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  108. 1. Overweight
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    3. Obese
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  112. Olivia says

    1. Overweight
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    3. Obese
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    5. Overweight

  113. Nimra says

    1.Obese
    2.Fat
    3.Obese
    4.Obesity
    5.Over weight

  114. Shraddha Sreelal says

    1) overweight
    2) fat
    3) obese
    4) obesity
    5) overweight

  115. 1.obese
    2. Overweight
    3.obese
    4.obesity
    5.overweight

  116. Neha Sharma says

    1. Overweight
    2. Fat
    3. Obese
    4. Obesity
    5. Fat

  117. Deborah sunil says

    1. Obesity , 2. Overweight, 3. Obese .4. Fat. 5. Overweight

  118. Praveena says

    1)overweight
    2)fat
    3)obesed
    4)obesity
    5)fat

  119. Amaka says

    1: Overweight
    2: Fat
    3: Obessed
    4: Obesity
    5: Overweight

  120. 1 Over weight
    2 Fat
    3 Obese
    4 fat
    5 overweight

  121. 1. Overweight
    2. Overweight
    3. Fat
    4. Obesity
    5. Fat

  122. Usmanto Darjo says

    1.overweight
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    5.fat

  123. Swarnila says

    1.overweight
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  124. Nora ragab says

    1-obese 2-fat 3-obese 4-obesity 5-overweight

  125. Overweight
    Fat
    Obese
    Obesity
    Overwwight

  126. Patience Andem says

    1.overweight
    2.fat
    3.obese
    4.obesity
    5.obesity

  127. Raghav says

    1. Overweight
    2. Fat
    3. Obese
    4. Obesity
    5. Fat

  128. Nurul hani says

    1)overweight
    2)fat
    3)obesity
    4)obesity
    5)fat

  129. Amandeep says

    1) Obese
    2) Fat
    3) Obese
    4)Overweight
    5)fat

  130. 1- overweight
    2- fat
    3- obese
    4- obesity
    5- overweight

  131. Dorcas says

    1. Overweight
    2. Fat
    3. Obesed
    4. Obesity
    5. Obesed

  132. Latifat says

    1. Obese
    2. Overweight
    3. Obese
    4. Obesity
    5. Obese

  133. Sarah says

    1. Obese
    2. Overweight
    3. Obese
    4. Obesity
    5. Overweight

  134. Loveth says

    1: Overweight
    2: Obese
    3: Fat
    4:Obesity
    5: Obese

  135. Preet says

    1) OBESE
    2) OVERWEIGHT
    3) FAT
    4) OBESITY
    5) OVERWEIGHT

  136. Thien says

    1 obese
    2 fat
    3 obese
    4 obesity
    5 overweight

  137. nadjia says

    1- Overweight
    2- overweight
    3-obese
    4-obesity
    5-fat

  138. Mitesh rajput says

    Hello madam I am Mitesh Rajput from India. My IELTS result of 23rd may 2019 has reveal & I scored L6 W6 R7 & S5.5 . should I go for revaluation in speaking module please suggest me your decision is important for me. Thank you.

  139. Sanjay patel says

    1-fat
    2-overweight
    3-fatty
    4-obesity
    5-fatty

  140. 1. overweight
    2. fat
    3. obese
    4. obesity
    5. fat

  141. Rajbir kaur says

    Fat
    Weight
    Obese
    Obesity
    Fat

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