More than portly

The answer

OBESE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OBESE answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OBESE

Every other clue in this collection answered by OBESE, most used first.

• Corpulent - used 116 times, most recently in 2023
• Overweight - used 40 times, most recently in 2022
• Past plump - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Having a lot to lose? - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
• More than plump - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Portly - used 27 times, most recently in 2014
• Like Humpty Dumpty - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Like Jabba the Hutt - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Like Santa Claus - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
• Beyond plump - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Falstaffian - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Like Falstaff - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Santa-like - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Stout - used 15 times, most recently in 2005
• More than fat - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Way overweight - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• More than chubby - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Not just plump - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Way too weighty - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• With a lot to lose? - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Fat - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Past pudgy - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Plump plus. - used 10 times, most recently in 2005
• Really big - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Beyond beefy - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Bigger than big - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• More than pudgy - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Very overweight - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Like sumo wrestlers - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• More than chunky - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Rotund - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Too heavy - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Tubby - used 8 times, most recently in 1999
• Having a high BMI - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• More than heavy - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Portly plus - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Scale-busting - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Beyond chubby - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Beyond pleasantly plump - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Beyond pudgy - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Fatter than fat - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Hardly svelte - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Heavy and then some - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Heavy, plus - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Humpty Dumpty-like - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Like Henry VIII - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Like Nero Wolfe - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Like Santa - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Plump and then some - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Santalike - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Seriously chubby - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Once more - AGAIN, used 336 times
• More than enough - AMPLE, used 185 times
• More rational - SANER, used 155 times
• More pleasant - NICER, used 145 times
• One more time - AGAIN, used 115 times
• More reasonable - SANER, used 108 times

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