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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to pigs |
| Synonyms: | hoggish, piggish, rapacious |
| 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: | 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: | obese |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very overweight |
| Synonyms: | adipose, avoirdupois, corpulent, fat, fleshy, gross*, heavy, outsize, paunchy, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout |
| Antonyms: | emaciated, skinny, underweight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | big, bulky, burly, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavy, obese, plenitudinous, plump, porcine, portly, rotund, substantial, thick-bodied, tubby, upholstered, weighty, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | skinny, thin, underweight |
| Main Entry: | weighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavy |
| Synonyms: | burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, dense, fat, fleshy, hefty, massive, obese, overweight, ponderous, porcine, portly, stout |
| Antonyms: | light, small, thin, unsubstantial |
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