Synonyms for plump
- adjective
- verb
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
a plump baby; plump cheeks
- v. 1
To grow plump; to swell out.
- v. 2
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
to plump oysters or scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water
Related words
- Word family
- plumply plumpness plumptitude
- Phrases
- plump down plump for plump up
Forms
- Past participle
- plumped
e.g. plumped → fatted, squabbed, fattened, plunked…
Example sentences
- chubby Tom told me that he thought that Mary was chubby.
- portly My uncle is quite portly – or, to put it less politely, quite fat.
- buxom Skura was quite buxom and Yanni liked that about her.
- corpulent A corpulent man in his mid-forties entered the hall.
- round This fact shows that the earth goes round the sun.
By length
- 2 letters
- go1
- 3 letters
- fat1
- 4 letters
- full1, plop1
- 5 letters
- round1, blunt1, obese2, stout1, plank1, slump1, burly2, lusty2, tubby2, pudgy2, buxom2, plunk1, plonk, squab
- 6 letters
- direct2, chubby2, chunky2, fleshy2, stocky2, fatten2, portly2, brawny2, rotund2
- 7 letters
- plummet2, adipose3
- 8 letters
- bouncing2
- 9 letters
- downright2, strapping2, corpulent
- 10 letters
- overweight3, embonpoint
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (obese2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- dodu
- Italiano
- cicciottello
- Español
- regordete