gravitationally challenged

English

An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.

gravitationally challenged (comparative more gravitationally challenged, superlative most gravitationally challenged)

(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Fat.
- 1996 March 3, Diane Ketcham, “Long Island Journal”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Aug. 2010:
  [T]he chunky Mr. Ackerman took to the stage. First he told fat jokes. . . . "I'm not fat. I'm gravitationally challenged."
- 2002 July 6, Tania Kindersley, “A job for nanny”, in spectator.co.uk, retrieved 29 Aug. 2010:
  In America fat is the new f-word—instead, it's nutritionally endowed, or person of mass, or gravitationally challenged.
(euphemistic, often humorous) Of a person, having a poor sense of balance; subject to intervals of dizziness.
- 2003 July 18, Leonard Klady, “MCM Review: Johnny English”, in Movie City News, retrieved 29 Aug. 2010:
  Consider that the person asking is Mr. Bean, the diminutive, awkward, gravitationally challenged, accident-prone incarnation served up by Rowan Atkinson.