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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | member of genus Bos |
| Synonyms: | cow, oxen |
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | beefy, big, blimp, bovine, brawny, broad, bulging, bulky, bull, burly, butterball, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, elephantine, fleshy, gargantuan, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, husky, inflated, jelly-belly, lard, large, meaty, obese, oversize, paunchy, plump, plumpish, ponderous, porcine, portly, potbellied, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, solid, stout, swollen, thickset, weighty, whalelike |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, slight, slim, thin |
| Main Entry: | lumbering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, awkward |
| Synonyms: | blundering, bovine, bumbling, clodhopping, clunking, elephantine, gauche, gawky, halting, heavy, heavy-footed, hulking, inept, klutzy, lead-footed, lumpish, maladroit, overgrown, ponderous, splay, two left feet, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy, wooden |
| Antonyms: | agile, gliding, lithe |
Example Sentences
- Red deer also spread bovine tuberculosis to co-habiting livestock.
- The first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was detected in 1986.
- As the bovine star awaits the rooster's cry, other animal noises fill the barnyard.
| Main Entry: | stolid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | apathetic, stupid |
| Synonyms: | blunt, bovine, dense, doltish, dry, dull, dumb, heavy, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lumpish, matter-of-fact, obtuse, passive, phlegmatic, slow, stoic, supine, unemotional, unexcitable, wooden |
| Antonyms: | aware, intelligent, interested |
| Main Entry: | thoughtless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absent-minded, unobservant |
| Synonyms: | bovine, careless, confused, doltish, dull, empty-headed, flighty, foolish, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, imprudent, inadvertent, inane, inattentive, incomprehensible, inept, injudicious, irrational, irreflective, lamebrained, loony, mindless, neglectful, negligent, obtuse, puerile, rash, reckless, regardless, remiss, senseless, silly, stupid, undiscerning, unheeding, unmindful, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflective, unthinking, vacuous, witless |
| Antonyms: | attentive, heeding, mindful, observant, thoughtful |
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