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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, 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

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

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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