bouncing

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: bounc=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

bouncing, a. 

•  Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.  [1913 Webster]

  "Many tall and bouncing young ladies."  [1913 Webster]
•  Excessive; big.  B. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]

Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bouncing, adj.
1 (esp. of a baby) big and healthy.
2 boisterous.

THESAURUS

bouncing

active, activist, activistic, alive, animated, beefy, bouncy, bounding, breezy, brisk, bubbly, chipper, doughty, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, full-blooded, full-strength, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, hefty, hopping, husky, iron-hard, jumping, leaping, live, lively, lusty, mercurial, mighty, militant, nervy, obstinate, peppy, perky, pert, potent, powerful, prancing, puissant, quicksilver, rebounding, recalcitrant, recoiling, red-blooded, repercussive, resilient, robust, robustious, robustuous, rude, rugged, saltant, saltatorial, saltatory, skipping, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, springing, spry, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zingy

ROGET THESAURUS

bouncing

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.