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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive, rich |
| Synonyms: | affluent, cushy, fertile, flourishing, fruitful, good, lucrative, lush, profitable, prosperous, remunerative, thriving |
| Antonyms: | impoverished, poor, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large, great |
| Synonyms: | a whale of a, ample, awash, brimming, bulky, bull*, burly, capacious, chock-full, colossal, commodious, considerable, copious, crowded, enormous, extensive, fat, full, gigantic, heavy-duty, heavyweight, hefty, huge, hulking, humongous*, husky, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, mondo, monster*, oversize, packed, ponderous, prodigious, roomy, sizable, spacious, strapping, stuffed, substantial, super colossal, thundering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, walloping, whopper, whopping |
| Antonyms: | itsy, little, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | considerable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important |
| Synonyms: | big, consequential, distinguished, doozie, dynamite, essential, fab, fat, influential, material, meaningful, momentous, mondo, noteworthy, renowned, significant, solid gold, something, something else, substantial, super, super-duper, to the max, unreal*, venerable, weighty |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, unimportant, unnoteworthy, unnoticeable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | corpulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fat, chubby |
| Synonyms: | baby elephant, beefy, blimp, bulky, burly, embonpoint, fat, fleshy, gross, having a bay window, having a spare tire, heavy, hefty, husky, large, lusty, obese, overblown, overweight, plump, portly, roly-poly, rotund, stout, tubby, weighty, well-padded |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, slight, thin |
| Main Entry: | dumpy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short and stout |
| Synonyms: | chubby, chunky, fat, homely, plump, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, squat, stocky, stumpy, tubby |
| Main Entry: | fleshy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | adipose, ample, beefy, brawny, chubby, chunky, corpulent, fat, gross, heavy, hefty, husky, meaty, obese, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy, pulpy, sarcous, stout, tubby, weighty, well-padded, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | skinny, thin, underweight |
| Main Entry: | gainful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very productive, profitable |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, beneficial, fat, fruitful, generous, going, going concern, good, in the black, lucrative, lush, moneymaking, paid off, paying, remunerative, rewarding, rich, satisfying, substantial, sweet*, useful, well-paying, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, unproductive, unprofitable, useless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | great |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, big, big league, bulky, bull, colossal, considerable, decided, enormous, excessive, extended, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, gigantic, grievous, high, huge, humongous, husky, immense, inordinate, jumbo, lengthy, long, major league, mammoth, mondo, numerous, oversize, prodigious, prolonged, pronounced, protracted, strong, stupendous, terrible, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous |
| Antonyms: | few, little, miniature, minute, short, small |
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