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Obese vs Tubby - What's the difference?

obese | tubby |

As adjectives the difference between obese and tubby

is that obese is obese while tubby is stout, rotund.

As nouns the difference between obese and tubby

is that obese is an obese person while tubby is (pejorative|slang|often used teasingly) an overweight person.

obese

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * obesity * obeses

    Phrases

    * morbidly obese * super obese

    See also

    * fat ----

    tubby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • stout, rotund
  • Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
    • a tubby violin

    Derived terms

    * tubbiness

    Noun

    (tubbies)
  • (pejorative, slang, often used teasingly) An overweight person.

    • Derived terms

    * Teletubby