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obese

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of obese

having an excess of body fat

the basset hound was so obese that its stomach touched the floor

Synonyms of obese

blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

Words Related to obese

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 obese

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 obese

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

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