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marie.marron
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fat/obese/overweight
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Hello everybody! I �m making a worksheet about physical description, and I have a couple of doubts. Is there a difference between chubby and plump? And between fat, obese and overweight? I would put obese and overweight as synonyms, but I �m not sure!
Thanks for your help!
Marie |
4 Feb 2012
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ueslteacher
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fat is rude obese is formal or medical overweight is more colloquial I guess, plus there can be a gradation to it like in: slightly/a few pounds overweight Sophia |
4 Feb 2012
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epit
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Is it skinny<slim<thin<chubby< plump< fat< overweight <obese or different ? Thanks |
4 Feb 2012
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ueslteacher
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I don �t think you can put them all in one line, bc as I said, you can �t teach your ss to describe someone as fat (especially to someone �s face) as it �s rude. If you take slim and thin which both have the same meaning but are used differently: slim is thin in an attractive way, whereas thin is oftentimes disapproving. Sophia
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4 Feb 2012
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Apodo
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Is it skinny<slim<thin<chubby< plump< fat< overweight <obese or different ?
Some of these words mean almost the same thing, but some are more polite than others.
We are careful which words we use if we don �t want to hurt someone �s feelings, or say something bad about someone else. Some people are very sensitive about their weight.
But you have the words more or less in order, maybe I �d put thin before slim.
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4 Feb 2012
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cunliffe
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ueslteacher is right about slim and thin. I haven �t heard the word �plump � for ages. Maybe you could use it to describe a baby. I was watching a TV programme the other night, which was set in the seventies and there was quite a well rounded young woman in it and the policeman described her as �well nourished. � What a euphemism is that!!!
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4 Feb 2012
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epit
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Hi again ,I don �t want to be misundertood. I know Children are very sensetive about their kilos .When I teach adjectives , I avoid being rude and give examples from animal illustration cause fatness make some animals so cute .But sometimes we need to know the differences between words.Hugs |
4 Feb 2012
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