Corpulent
['kɔːpjʊl(ə)nt] or ['kɔrpjələnt]
Definition
(a.) Very fat; obese.
(a.) Solid; gross; opaque.
Checker: Patty
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fleshy, fat, stout, portly, plump, pursy, obese, round.
Typed by Cyril
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stout, burly, fat, portly, gross, lusty, plethoric, fleshy
ANT:Lean, thin, attenuated, slight, emaciated
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Examples
- Everybody knows that,' said the corpulent host. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One corpulent slow boy, with a wheezy manner of breathing, ventured the answer, Because he wouldn't paper a room at all, but would paint it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- His mantle and hood were of the best Flanders cloth, and fell in ample, and not ungraceful folds, around a handsome, though somewhat corpulent person. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Before this time I have always especially disliked corpulent humanity. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I now observed a very corpulent gentleman sailing towards us. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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