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portly

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of portly

1 having an excess of body fat

  • a portly gentleman who loved to cook for his family and friends
Synonyms of portly

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

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
Near Antonyms of portly

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
Antonyms of portly

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

2 having or showing a formal and serious or reserved manner

  • walked with the portly grace of the grande dame that she was
Synonyms of portly

august, dignified, distingué, distinguished, imposing, solemn, staid, stately
Words Related to portly

decorous, proper, seemly

grave, grim, po-faced [British], sober, somber (or sombre)

aristocratic, elegant, elevated, handsome, lordly, magisterial, majestic, noble
Near Antonyms of portly

coarse, crass, crude, improper, indecent, uncouth, unseemly, vulgar
Antonyms of portly

flighty, frivolous, giddy, goofy, silly, undignified

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