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chubby

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Synonyms & Antonyms of chubby

having an excess of body fat

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

Synonyms for chubby

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

flabby,
soft

ample,
buxom,
corn-fed,
ripe,
zaftig
(also zoftig)

endomorphic

Near Antonyms for 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

ectomorphic

anorexic

Antonyms for chubby

lean,
skinny,
slender,
slim,
spare,
thin

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