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Synonyms for corpulent

21 synonyms
3 antonyms
1 meaning

adjective

Most common

fat obese rotund portly

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Fat

fat, obese, rotund, portly, fleshy, stout, plump, burly, lusty, full-figured, weighty, bulky, gross, pursy, pudgy, chubby, brawny, roly-poly, overweight, strapping

Other

Antonyms

thin, gaunt, anorexic

All antonyms of corpulent →

Definitions

adj. 1
Large in body; fat; overweight.

Related words

Word family: corpulence corpulentness

Example sentences

fat Between you and me, the fat ugly man is on a diet.
obese Some are just obese, others have a bonus goiter.
portly My uncle is quite portly – or, to put it less politely, quite fat.
rotund He's become more rotund since our last meeting.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
corpulent		rising
fat		rising
obese		rising
portly		rising
rotund		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: fat¹
5 letters: gross¹, obese², stout¹, bulky², plump¹, burly², lusty², pudgy², pursy
6 letters: chubby², fleshy², portly², rotund², brawny²
7 letters: weighty²
9 letters: strapping²
10 letters: overweight³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (obese² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: corpulent
Italiano: corpulento
Español: corpulento
Deutsch: korpulent
Català: corpulent