portly

port·ly

adj \ˈpȯrt-lē\

port·li·erport·li·est

Definition of PORTLY

1

: dignified, stately

2

: heavy or rotund of body : stout

— port·li·ness noun

Examples of PORTLY

1. <a portly gentleman who clearly didn't get enough exercise>
2. <walked with the portly grace of the grande dame that she was>

Origin of PORTLY

³port

First Known Use: 15th century

Related to PORTLY

Synonyms: blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], fat, 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 PORTLY

courtly, shortly, thwartly