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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: | hardy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong, tough |
| Synonyms: | able, able-bodied, acclimatized, brawny, burly, capable, enduring, firm, fit, fresh, hale, hardened, healthy, hearty, hefty, in fine fettle, in good condition, in good shape, indefatigable, inured, lusty, mighty, muscular, physically fit, powerful, resistant, robust, rugged, seasoned, solid, sound, stalwart, staunch, stout, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, unflagging, vigorous, well |
| Notes: | hardy means 'strong, durable, capable' - while hearty means 'strong' in a more active way as in hearty appetite, applause, meal |
| Antonyms: | feeble, infirm, invalid, sick, tender, unhealthy, weak |
| Main Entry: | heavy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having great weight |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, awkward, beefy, big, built, bulky, burdensome, chunky, considerable, copious, corpulent, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, enceinte, excessive, expectant, fat, fleshy, gravid, gross*, hefty, huge, laden, large, lead-footed, loaded, lumbering, massive, obese, oppressed, overweight, parturient, ponderous, porcine, portly, pregnant, stout, substantial, top-heavy, two-ton, unmanageable, unwieldy, weighted, weighty, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | airy, light, lightweight, little, slight, small |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hulking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | massive |
| Synonyms: | big, bulky, clumsy, colossal, cumbersome, elephantine, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, gigantic, grand, great, heavy, hefty, huge, immense, imposing, large, lumbering, mammoth, monumental, solid, titanic, towering, tremendous, unwieldy, weighty |
| Main Entry: | husky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, burly |
| Synonyms: | Herculean, brawny, gigantic, hefty, mighty, muscular, powerful, rugged, sinewy, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, thickset, well-built |
| Antonyms: | little, small, thin |
| Main Entry: | large |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, barn door, blimp, booming, broad, bulky, capacious, colossal, comprehensive, considerable, copious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, full, generous, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hefty, huge, humongous*, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, liberal, massive, monumental, mountainous, plentiful, populous, roomy, sizable, spacious, stupendous, substantial, super, sweeping, thumping, tidy, vast, voluminous, whopping, wide |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | major |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bigger |
| Synonyms: | above, better, big, chief, considerable, dominant, elder, exceeding, extensive, extreme, greater, hefty, higher, large, large-scale, larger, leading, main, most, oversized, primary, senior, sizable, superior, supreme, ultra, upper, uppermost |
| Antonyms: | lesser, little, minor, small |
| Main Entry: | massive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large |
| Synonyms: | big, bulky, colossal, cracking, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, gigantic, grand, great, gross, heavy, hefty, huge, hulking, immense, imposing, impressive, mammoth, mighty, monster, monumental, mountainous, ponderous, prodigious, solid, stately, substantial, titanic, towering, tremendous, unwieldy, vast, walloping, weighty, whopping |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, small, tiny |
| Main Entry: | muscular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerfully built |
| Synonyms: | Herculean, able-bodied, athletic, brawny, bruising, burly, fibrous, hefty, hulky, husky, lusty, mighty, muscled, powerful, powerhouse, pumped up, ripped, robust, ropy, sinewy, stalwart, stout, strapping, stringy, strong, sturdy, tiger, tough, vigorous, well-built, wiry |
| Antonyms: | delicate, flabby, infirm, skinny, weak |
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