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tubby

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Synonyms & Antonyms of tubby

having an excess of body fat

in America, Santa Claus is portrayed as a jolly but tubby older gentleman

Synonyms for tubby

blubbery,
chubby,
corpulent,
fat,
fleshy,
full,
gross,
lardy,
obese,
overweight,
plump,
podgy
[chiefly British],
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

flabby,
soft

ample,
buxom,
corn-fed,
ripe,
zaftig
(also zoftig)

endomorphic

Near Antonyms for 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

ectomorphic

anorexic

Antonyms for tubby

lean,
skinny,
slender,
slim,
spare,
thin

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“Tubby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tubby. Accessed 27 May. 2022.

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The first known use of tubby was circa 1807

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