Synonyms of plump

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adjective

as in fat

having an excess of body fat

she's been plump all her life, and her sister has always been skinny

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fat
• round
• full
• chubby
• pudgy
• rotund
• corpulent
• fleshy
• stout
• thick
• obese
• husky
• tubby
• overweight
• ripe
• portly
• gross
• lardy
• blubbery
• podgy
• heavy
• replete
• roly-poly
• soft
• stocky
• beefy
• thickset
• bulky
• squat
• chunky
• burly
• heavyset
• plumpish
• flabby
• dumpy
• brawny
• stubby
• paunchy
• buxom
• potbellied
• hefty
• weighty
• ample
• hippy
• corn-fed
• zaftig
• endomorphic
• zoftig

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slender
• thin
• lean
• skinny
• slim
• bony
• spare
• gaunt
• lanky
• sinewy
• angular
• skeletal
• lank
• haggard
• rawboned
• scrawny
• emaciated
• pinched
• cadaverous
• wasted
• puny
• slight
• scraggy
• stringy
• willowy
• weedy
• spindly
• svelte
• boney
• rangy
• reedy
• waspish
• twiggy
• sylphlike
• anorexic
• spindling
• ectomorphic

plump

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adverb

as in straight

in a direct line or course

there was a squirrel on the sidewalk plump in front of us

Synonyms & Similar Words

• straight
• right
• dead
• direct
• directly
• due
• plumb
• as the crow flies
• straightway

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indirectly
• circuitously
• deviously
• veeringly

plump

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noun

as in blow

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument

angrily gave a plump of his fist against the door

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blow
• thump
• slap
• pound
• punch
• thud
• hit
• whack
• swipe
• stroke
• knock
• poke
• lick
• smack
• bang
• spank
• beat
• slam
• clip
• pelt
• hook
• chop
• slug
• lash
• clap
• kick
• switch
• bust
• sock
• belt
• box
• buffet
• crack
• pick
• swat
• bat
• cuff
• smash
• bop
• welt
• stripe
• fillip
• licking
• hack
• dab
• wallop
• knee
• thwack
• rap
• biff
• clout
• haymaker
• wham
• pounding
• bash
• douse
• stinger
• beating
• swing
• whop
• larrup
• hand
• left
• counterblow
• whap
• counter
• sucker punch
• body blow
• right
• counterstroke
• shiver
• whipping
• whip
• rabbit punch
• knockout
• hammering
• one-two
• thrashing
• roundhouse
• pummeling
• knockdown
• flogging
• uppercut
• cruncher
• battering
• counterpunch
• KO
• pummelling
• cudgelling
• drubbing
• bastinado
• bastinade
• sidewinder
• walloping
• clobbering
• cudgeling
• right-hander
• pasting
• bludgeoning
• lambasting
• kayo

plump

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verb

as in to plop

to throw or set down clumsily or casually

plumped herself down on the couch and turned on the TV

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plop
• toss
• flop
• plunk
• plank
• plonk
• flump
• fling
• heave
• sling
• ensconce
• plant
• install
• settle

Phrases Containing plump

• plump (for)