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overweight
Above the normal, desirable, or allowed weight
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  1. Above the normal, desirable, or allowed weight
  2. (Finance) Holding or containing relatively more of a specified asset, security, etc., as in relation to some benchmark
  3. Weighing more than is normal, necessary, or allowed, especially having more body weight than is considered normal or healthy for one's age or build.
unstable
(--- Chem.) Tending to decompose or change into other compounds
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  1. (--- Chem.) Tending to decompose or change into other compounds
  2. Not fixed, firm, or steady; easily upset or unbalanced
  3. Relating to an atom or chemical element that is likely to share electrons; reactive.
bulky
Clumsy to manage; unwieldy.
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  1. Clumsy to manage; unwieldy.
  2. Of large size for its weight:
  3. (Bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
unbalanced
Not treating all sides with due importance:
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  1. Not treating all sides with due importance:
  2. Showing or marked by erratic or volatile emotions or behavior.
  3. Erratic or unstable
overloaded
Loaded too heavily
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  1. Loaded too heavily
  2. Of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
  3. (Computing) of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context
cumbersome
Hard to handle or deal with as because of size, weight, or complexity; burdensome; unwieldy; clumsy
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  1. Hard to handle or deal with as because of size, weight, or complexity; burdensome; unwieldy; clumsy
  2. Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
  3. Not easily managed or handled; awkward.
disproportionate
Not proportionate.
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  1. Not proportionate.
  2. Not proportionate; not in proportion
  3. Out of proportion, as in size, shape, or amount.
Find another word for top-heavy. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for top-heavy, like: overweight, unstable, bulky, tottering, unbalanced, overloaded, cumbersome, disproportionate, overcapitalized, balanced and equalized.

Sentence Examples

  • In his prime Gladstone was just six feet high, but his inches diminished as his years increased, and in old age the unusual size of his head and breadth of his shoulders gave him a slightly top-heavy appearance.

  • Young horses that are too highly fed are apt to become weak-limbed and top-heavy.

  • Even without the metal knob, this extreme taper makes the stick decidedly top-heavy.

  • top-heavy management structure was created - with our chairman seemingly at the center of every web.

  • top-heavy furniture may be overturned.

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