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tubby

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of tubby

having an excess of body fat

In America, Santa Claus is portrayed as a jolly and tubby older gentleman.

Synonyms of tubby

blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round

Words Related to tubby

beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty

brawny, burly, hefty, husky

dumpy, squat, stubby

hippy, paunchy, potbellied

Near Antonyms of tubby

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

Antonyms of tubby

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

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