Synonyms of protuberant

protuberant

adjective

as in swollen

sticking out from a surface usually with a curved or rounded shape

Lemurs are known for their protuberant eyes.

Related Words

• swollen
• bulging
• distended
• dilated
• varicose
• tumescent
• blown
• turgid
• puffed
• overinflated
• tumid
• bloated
• expanded
• blown up
• ballooning
• ballooned
• ventricose
• dilating
• turgescent

Dissimilar Words

• deflated
• collapsed
• detumescent

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of protuberant

Lu, who has protuberant light brown eyes, small black ears and a floppy tongue, loves to snuggle with her four-legged foster siblings and stretch out in the sun, according to the contest website. — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026

And the rear of the case is deeper to accommodate a protuberant rear camera—hinting that the next iPad will see a big camera upgrade. — David Phelan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022

His eyesight was failing and his eyes were bloodshot and protuberant. — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022

On another branch nearby was an Oustalet’s chameleon the size of a rabbit, rotating one of its protuberant eyeballs in stop-and-start circles. — Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022

Tourists were free to go to Gibraltar, which is literally a bright spot—an anomalous British territory on a headland on the sunny southern coast of Spain, just over a tenth of the area of Manhattan, most of which is protuberant rock. — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021

Meanwhile, Angela is carrying on with protuberant tennis pro Tony Parker (Andrew Carter), who becomes the object of lust to both Edith and Angela's gay son, Lance (Tom DeTrinis). — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 17 May 2018