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replete

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of replete

1 having an excess of body fat

  • the merchant was a richly replete gentleman, clearly enjoying the fruits of his success
Synonyms of replete

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

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 replete

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 replete

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

2 possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified

  • a gym that is replete with the very latest in home exercise equipment
Synonyms of replete

abounding, abundant, awash, flush, fraught, lousy, rife, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging
Words Related to replete

brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, filled, full, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed

clogged, congested, overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstuffed, surfeited

alive, animated, astir, bustling, busy, buzzing, humming, lively
Near Antonyms of replete

bare, barren, blank, devoid, empty, stark, vacant, void

depleted, drained, exhausted

deficient, incomplete, insufficient, short

3 having oneʼs appetite completely satisfied

  • everyone settled back and relaxed, completely replete after the huge meal
Synonyms of replete

full, sated, satiate, satiated, stuffed, surfeited
Words Related to replete

glutted, gorged, overfed, overfull, overstuffed
Near Antonyms of replete

underfed, undernourished
Antonyms of replete

empty, famished, hungry, starved, starving

Synonym Discussion of replete

full, complete, plenary, replete mean containing all that is wanted or needed or possible. full implies the presence or inclusion of everything that is wanted or required by something or that can be held, contained, or attained by it.
    • a full schedule
complete applies when all that is needed is present.
    • a complete picture of the situation
plenary adds to complete the implication of fullness without qualification.
    • given plenary power
replete implies being filled to the brim or to satiety.
    • replete with delightful details

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