HIPPY Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

hippy

adjective

Definition of hippy

as in paunchy

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In Arthur Penn’s 1975 neo-noir Night Moves, Griffith is Delly Grastner, a 16-year-old runaway with a little girl’s voice and a grown woman’s body—on full display in an underwater nude scene—intent on seducing Gene Hackman, 43 and paunchy.

— Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
There isn’t much room in this palette for public pools or paunchy, suburban retirees.

— Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025

Definition of paunchy

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An inquisition of potbellied priests stood at the side of the road.

— Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
The farm is home to goats, Holstein cows, potbellied and kune kune pigs, donkeys, sheep, rabbits, llamas, alpacas, guinea fowl, guinea pigs, geese, chickens, a Shetland pony, and a Shire horse.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025

Definition of potbellied

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And this is in a nice, pretty on-campus facility, not the old, dumpy Astrodome (although the Astrodome is still up, which is another story).

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2026
Sunday brings the end of another dumpy Miami Dolphins season, but not to the problems needing solutions or the organizational mess that demands more than a offseason cleanup on Aisle 5.

— Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026

Definition of dumpy

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Gravity-1, a distinctively squat and stubby rocket, launched Tuesday night (July 21) from the deck of a ship stationed off the coast of Shanghai.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 July 2026
For more than a century, Anna Horan’s gravesite was one of the thousands marked by squat, featureless headstones arranged in uneven rows along the hillside in New Haven’s Blake Street Cemetery.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

Definition of squat

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Gravity-1, a distinctively squat and stubby rocket, launched Tuesday night (July 21) from the deck of a ship stationed off the coast of Shanghai.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 July 2026
Turned into an elegant hors d’oeuvre with a wedge of Brie and a stubby cornichon.

— Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 July 2026

Definition of stubby

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Morocco’s burly defender Issa Diop was nearly on top of him, but Mbappé didn’t give him time to challenge.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 10 July 2026
Waving and smiling, Aveiro, accompanied by a burly gentleman, takes a seat at a table bedecked with a bouquet of roses, ready to tuck into some cuisine from her native country.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026

Definition of burly

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