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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavier than average |
| Synonyms: | ample, bulky, corpulent, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, hefty, huge, massive, obese, outsize, overfed, overstuffed, plump, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout, upholstered, weighty |
| Antonyms: | skinny, thin, underweight |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance of something |
| Synonyms: | balance, by-product, enough, exorbitance, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
| Antonyms: | dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large, fat |
| Synonyms: | adipose, big, bulky, chubby, corpulent, dense, fleshy, great, heavy, hulking, husky, lumpish, massive, obese, overweight, porcine, portly, stout, thick, unwieldy, weighty |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, thin |
| 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: | obesity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corpulence |
| Synonyms: | bulk, chubbiness, chunkiness, fatness, overweight, paunchiness, plumpness, portliness, rotundness, stoutness |
| Main Entry: | portly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bulky, fat |
| Synonyms: | ample, avoirdupois, beefy, broad, burly, corpulent, fleshy, heavy, hefty, husky, large, obese, overweight, plump, rotund, stout |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, thin |
| Main Entry: | roly-poly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pudgy |
| Synonyms: | buxom, chubby, dumpy, fat, hefty, obese, overweight, plump, plumpish, rotund, round, stout, thick-bodied, tubby |
| Main Entry: | rotund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fat |
| Synonyms: | beefy, big, broad, burly, chunky, dumpy, elephantine, fleshy, heavy, heavyset, hefty, husky, obese, overweight, plump, plumpish, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, round, solid, stout, tubby, weighty |
| 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 |
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