chubby

chub·by

adj \ˈchə-bē\

chub·bi·erchub·bi·est

Definition of CHUBBY

: plump <a chubby boy>

— chub·bi·ness \ˈchə-bē-nəs\ noun

Examples of CHUBBY

1. He was always chubby as a child.
2. <the chubby baby had slimmed down by the time she was a toddler>

Origin of CHUBBY

chub

First Known Use: 1722

Related to CHUBBY

Synonyms: blubbery, fat, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

Antonyms: lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

Related Words: beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty; brawny, burly, hefty, husky; dumpy, squat, stubby; hippy, paunchy, potbellied; flabby, soft; ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig); endomorphic

Near Antonyms: angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy; cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted; puny, scraggy, scrawny, slight; rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy; ectomorphic; anorexic

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Rhymes with CHUBBY

bubby, clubby, cubby, grubby, hubby, nubby, scrubby, shrubby, snubby, stubby, tubby