tubby

tub·by

adjective \ˈtə-bē\

tub·bi·ertub·bi·est

Definition of TUBBY

1

: sounding dull and without proper resonance or freedom of sound <a tubby violin>

2

: pudgy, fat

Examples of TUBBY

1. <in America, Santa Claus is portrayed as a jolly but tubby older gentleman>

First Known Use of TUBBY

circa 1807

Related to TUBBY

Synonyms

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

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

Rhymes with TUBBY

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