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squat

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of squat

being compact and broad in build and often short in stature

  • a short, squat woman
Synonyms of squat

chunky, dumpy, heavyset, squatty, stocky, stout, stubby, stumpy, thickset
Words Related to squat

beefy, brawny, bulky, burly, husky, sturdy, thick, thickish, weighty

chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

paunchy, potbellied

flabby, soft
Near Antonyms of squat

delicate, fragile, frail, puny

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy

scraggy, scrawny, slight

anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, skeletal, wasted

spindly, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy, wiry

squat

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of squat

to lie low with the limbs close to the body

  • a detective squatting to examine something on the ground
Synonyms of squat

couch, crouch, huddle, hunch, hunker (down), scrunch, squinch
Words Related to squat

curl up

squat

noun , slang

Synonyms and Antonyms of squat

the smallest amount or part imaginable

  • he doesn't do squat all day long and is by far the laziest worker in the company
Synonyms of squat

beans, bubkes (also bupkes), continental, damn, darn (also durn), diddly [slang], diddly-squat [slang], doodley-squat (or doodly-squat), fig, ghost, hoot, iota, jot, lick, modicum, rap, syllable, tittle, whit, whoop
Words Related to squat

ace, bit, crumb, dab, driblet, glimmer, hint, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, pin, ray, scrap, scruple, semblance, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smidgen (also smidgeon), snap, speck, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, touch, trace

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