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pudgy

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Synonyms & Antonyms of pudgy

having an excess of body fat

the short and pudgy toddler had transformed into a tall, strapping teenager

Synonyms for pudgy

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

Words Related to pudgy

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 for pudgy

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 for pudgy

lean,
skinny,
slender,
slim,
spare,
thin

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