Synonyms and Antonyms of portly
1
having an excess of body fat
- a portly gentleman who loved to cook for his family and friends
blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby
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
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
2
having or showing a formal and serious or reserved manner
- walked with the portly grace of the grande dame that she was
decorous, proper, seemly
grave, grim, po-faced [British], sober, somber (or sombre)
aristocratic, elegant, elevated, handsome, lordly, magisterial, majestic, noble
