stumpy
adjective being compact and broad in build and often short in stature <stumpy penguins become agile swimmers the moment they hit the water> Related Words beefy,
brawny,
bulky,
burly,
husky,
sturdy,
thick,
thickish,
weighty;
chubby,
corpulent,
fat,
fleshy,
full,
gross,
heavy,
obese,
overweight,
plump,
portly,
pudgy,
roly-poly,
rotund,
round,
tubby;
paunchy,
potbellied;
flabby,
soft Near Antonyms delicate,
fragile,
frail,
puny;
lean,
skinny,
slender,
slim,
spare,
thin;
angular,
bony (
also boney),
gaunt,
lank,
lanky,
rawboned,
sinewy;
scraggy,
scrawny,
slight;
anorexic,
cadaverous,
emaciated,
haggard,
skeletal,
wasted;
spindly,
twiggy,
waspish,
weedy,
willowy,
wiry 
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