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Adjectives (9)

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adj. spherical in shape

orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped

adj. (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"

corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund

adj. excessively fat; "a weighty man"

Fuzzynyms (52)

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fat

adj. having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"

round, circular

adj. having a circular shape

corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund

adj. excessively fat; "a weighty man"

fleshy, heavy, overweight

adj. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

adj. euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout"

chubby, embonpoint, plump

adj. sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";

bulblike, bulbous, bulb-shaped

adj. shaped like a bulb

ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical

adj. having the shape of a sphere or ball; "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey

dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly

adj. short and plump

adj. having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"

adj. inducing resonance; "resonant frequency"

resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative

adj. characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder"

adj. of colors that are bright and striking

adj. spherical in shape

bulblike, bulbous, bulb-shaped

adj. shaped like a bulb

ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical

adj. having the shape of a sphere or ball; "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey

round, circular

adj. having a circular shape

Synonyms (87)

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almond-shaped, amygdaliform, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal

adj. shaped like an almond

annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped

adj. shaped like a ring

aspheric, aspherical

adj. varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape

auriform, ear-shaped, ear-like

adj. having a shape resembling an ear

crescent(a), crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate

adj. resembling the new moon in shape

adj. having an outward curving front; "a bowfront dresser"; "a bowfront house"

cycloid, cycloidal

adj. resembling a circle

cylindrical, cylindric

adj. having the form of a cylinder

adj. of or relating to or being a hemisphere

egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate

adj. rounded like an egg

ellipsoid, ellipsoidal, spheroidal

adj. having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid

parabolic, parabolical

adj. having the form of a parabola

adj. having the shape of a paraboloid

adj. having the form of a pine cone

adj. especially of plant parts; cylindrical and tapering

big

adj. loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"

blaring, blasting

adj. unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"

booming, stentorian

adj. used of the voice

deafening, earsplitting, thunderous, thundery

adj. loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

adj. having volume or deepness; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth

grumbling, rumbling

adj. continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; "the rumbling rolling sound of thunder"

adj. given to loud offensive talk

adj. having an unusually loud voice

adj. loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent minority"

adj. full of the sound of voices; "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children"

abdominous, paunchy, potbellied

adj. having a large belly

adj. swollen with fat; "blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a coarse blubbery individual"

chubby, embonpoint, plump

adj. sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";

compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset

adj. having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"

double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled

adj. having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw

dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly

adj. short and plump

adj. somewhat fat

fleshy, heavy, overweight

adj. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

adj. repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man"

adj. euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout"

Antonyms (12)

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angular, angulate

adj. having angles or an angular shape

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

adj. lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

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