Synonyms for portly
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Somewhat fat, pudgy, overweight.
Example sentences
- fat Between you and me, the fat ugly man is on a diet.
- chubby Tom told me that he thought that Mary was chubby.
- burly Those burly books were really expensive.
- corpulent A corpulent man in his mid-forties entered the hall.
- imposing He really does have such thick, imposing eyebrows.
By length
- 3 letters
- fat1
- 5 letters
- obese2, stout1, plump1, burly2, lusty2, tubby2, pudgy2, podgy
- 6 letters
- chubby2, chunky2, fleshy2, rotund2, brawny2
- 7 letters
- adipose3
- 8 letters
- imposing3
- 9 letters
- strapping2, corpulent
- 10 letters
- overweight3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (obese2 = 2 syllables).