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chubby

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of chubby

having an excess of body fat

The chubby baby had slimmed down by the time she was a toddler.

Synonyms of chubby

blubbery, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

Words Related to chubby

beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty

brawny, burly, hefty, husky

dumpy, squat, stubby

hippy, paunchy, potbellied

Near Antonyms of chubby

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

Antonyms of chubby

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

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