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bulging
| Main Entry: |
bulging
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curving outward |
| Synonyms: | convex, gibbous, protuberant |
| Antonyms: | contracting |
| Main Entry: | baggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drooping |
| Synonyms: | billowing, bulging, droopy, flabby, floppy, ill-fitting, loose, oversize, roomy, sagging, slack, unshapely |
| Antonyms: | firm, fitting, tight |
| Main Entry: | convex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rounded, curving outward |
| Synonyms: | arched, bent, biconvex, bulged, bulging, bulgy, gibbous, outcurved, protuberant, raised |
| Notes: | convex (from Latin convexus 'arched, vaulted') refers to a surface that curves outward, concave (from Latin concavus 'hollow') to a surface that curves inward |
| Antonyms: | concave, depressed, sinking |
| Main Entry: | distended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulging, enlarged, expanded, inflated, puffed out, puffy, stretched, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| 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: | obtrusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pushy, obvious |
| Synonyms: | bulging, busy, forward, impertinent, importunate, interfering, intrusive, jutting, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, noticeable, officious, presumptuous, prognathous, projecting, prominent, protruding, protuberant, prying, sticking out |
| Antonyms: | modest, shy, unobtrusive |
| Main Entry: | prominent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticking out; conspicuous |
| Synonyms: | arresting, beetling, bulging, easily seen, embossed, extended, extrusive, eye-catching, flashy, hanging out, hilly, in the foreground, jutting, marked, noticeable, obtrusive, obvious, outstanding, projecting, pronounced, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, raised, relieved, remarkable, rough, rugged, salient, shooting out, signal, standing out, striking, to the fore, unmistakable |
| Antonyms: | depressed, inconspicuous, invisible, obscured, sunken |
| Main Entry: | tubby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fat |
| Synonyms: | beefy, big, brawny, broad, bulging, bulky, burly, chubby, chunky, dumpy, elephantine, fleshy, gargantuan, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, husky, large, obese, oversize, overweight, plump, portly, potbellied, pudgy, roly-poly, stout, weighty |
| Main Entry: | tumescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulging, bulgy, bursting, distended, distent, enlarged, expanding, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumid |
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