plump

⁶plump

adj

Definition of PLUMP

1

: having a full rounded usually pleasing form <a plump woman>

2

: ample, abundant

— plump·ish \ˈpləm-pish\ adjective

Examples of PLUMP

1. His aunt pinched his plump cheeks.
2. <she's been plump all her life, and her sister has always been skinny>

Origin of PLUMP

Middle English, dull, blunt, from Middle Dutch plomp

First Known Use: 1569

Related to PLUMP

Synonyms: blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, fat, 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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