corpulent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cor=pu=lent

CIDE DICTIONARY

corpulent, a. [L. corpulentus, fr. corpus: cf. F. corpulent. See Corpse.].

•  Very fat; obese.  [1913 Webster]
•  Solid; gross; opaque.  Holland.

Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

corpulent, adj. bulky in body, fat.

Derivative

corpulence n. corpulency n.

Etymology

ME f. L corpulentus f. corpus body

THESAURUS

corpulent

adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, broad-bodied, bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, coarse, crass, dense, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, full-bodied, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, massive, meaty, obese, overblown, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, three-dimensional, top-heavy, tubby, viscous, weighty, well-fed

ROGET THESAURUS

corpulent

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.