Synonyms of squat

squat 1 of 3

adjective

as in stout

being compact and broad in build and often short in stature

a short, squat woman

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stout
• squatty
• plump
• sturdy
• stocky
• stumpy
• thickset
• dumpy
• stubby
• husky
• thick
• round
• chunky
• heavy
• heavyset
• fat
• full
• bulky
• burly
• beefy
• overweight
• obese
• chubby
• rotund
• brawny
• pudgy
• tubby
• soft
• corpulent
• fleshy
• weighty
• thickish
• gross
• potbellied
• portly
• paunchy
• flabby
• roly-poly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lean
• thin
• slender
• skinny
• fragile
• delicate
• puny
• frail
• spare
• slim
• angular
• bony
• lanky
• gaunt
• slight
• sinewy
• skeletal
• scrawny
• wasted
• lank
• emaciated
• haggard
• weedy
• wiry
• rawboned
• scraggy
• anorexic
• spindly
• cadaverous
• willowy
• twiggy
• waspish

squat

2 of 3

verb

ˈskwät 

as in to crouch

to lie low with the limbs close to the body

a detective squatting to examine something on the ground

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crouch
• huddle
• hunch
• couch
• hunker (down)
• scrunch
• curl up
• squinch

squat

3 of 3

noun

slang

as in damn

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 & Similar Words

• damn
• lick
• whit
• hoot
• shred
• fig
• diddly
• syllable
• diddly-squat
• bit
• modicum
• little
• beans
• rap
• darn
• continental
• whoop
• doodley-squat
• iota
• jot
• ghost
• tittle
• touch
• bubkes
• hint
• ounce
• pin
• ray
• glimmer
• semblance
• speck
• spot
• strain
• particle
• crumb
• trace
• shade
• peanuts
• smidgen
• suspicion
• streak
• scrap
• sprinkling
• shadow
• ace
• nip
• mite
• driblet
• skosh
• dab
• scruple
• snap

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of squat

Adjective

Gravity-1, a distinctively squat and stubby rocket, launched Tuesday night (July 21) from the deck of a ship stationed off the coast of Shanghai. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 July 2026

For more than a century, Anna Horan’s gravesite was one of the thousands marked by squat, featureless headstones arranged in uneven rows along the hillside in New Haven’s Blake Street Cemetery. — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

Verb

The Eras Tour performer is pictured squatting in her dreamy pink-and-white strapless gown by designer Markarian, offering a closer look at her teardrop earrings and classic low-bun updo. — Ashleigh Carter, InStyle, 17 July 2026

Hathaway stars as Penelope, Odysseus’ wife who’s stuck at home in Ithaca keeping the gluttonous suitors squatting in their castle at bay. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026

Noun

The commission also recommended, as an alternative, shortening the arch itself while making the gilded statue even taller—a compromise that would leave the arch squat beneath a top-heavy sculpture. — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026

The result was a complex of squat, one- or two-level buildings with metal and glass siding, surrounded by a moat of parking spaces, with Google signs plunked into the dirt out front. — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026