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Pronunciation: [plˈʌmp] (IPA)

Plump is a common term used to describe someone or something that is full and rounded, usually referring to physical appearance. However, there are several synonyms for the word plump, including chubby, pudgy, fat, corpulent, bulky, fleshy, ample, and rotund. These synonyms vary in their connotations and intensity, with some being more neutral and others carrying a negative or even offensive tone. It is important to use synonyms appropriately and consider the context in which they are being used to avoid causing offense or misunderstanding. Ultimately, language is a tool to convey meaning, and using synonyms effectively can enrich our expressions and enhance our communication.
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What are the hypernyms for Plump?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Plump?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the opposite words for plump?

Plump is an adjective used to describe someone or something that is full and rounded in shape. The antonyms of plump are skinny, thin, slender, and slim. Skinny refers to a person or thing that is very thin, bony, or underweight. Thin refers to a lack of depth or plumpness, slender refers to being gracefully thin, and slim refers to being comfortably thin. While plump is often viewed positively as it implies a healthy body weight, the antonyms of plump are often viewed negatively, implying something less desirable. Nevertheless, all these terms are relative and refer to one's perception of what is considered too much or too little.

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Usage examples for Plump

The round waist fitted her plump figure smoothly, and the skirt was full and flowing.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Ma-nee was fair, but her hands were not adroit with the needle, nor was she fair in the plump fashion desirable in wives.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Alice Galleon would be there in a moment, meantime the two ladies, without moving in their chairs, flung sentences across at one another and smoothed their silk skirts with their white plump hands.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole

Famous quotes with Plump

  • The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
    Boyle Roche
  • I had a sudden longing, like a pain, for the hot smelly East, and remembered that Everett had said something about an Indian restaurant. I asked the barman, a hot-haired Irishman, and he asked one of the business-men (who, I saw now, was a Pakistani) and then was able to tell me that the Calicut Restaurant was on Egg Street, by the Poultry Market. I went there and ate insipid dahl, tough chicken, greasy pappadams, and rice that had congealed to a pudding. The décor was depressing – brown oily wallpaper, a calendar with a Bengali pin-up (buff, deliriously plump, about thirty-eight) – and it was evident that the few Indian students were eating the special curry prepared for the staff. The manager was from Pondicherry : he caled me ‘monsieur’ and was not impressed by my complaints. At least one of the waiters was from Jamaica. I went out angry and, at a pub where the landlady sniffed in curlers, drank brandy till closing-time.
    Anthony Burgess
  • ‘That it is still possible for a man of initiative to make money in the East is the firm opinion of balding, plump Mr Denham who adds, however, “Not if you take a wife with you.” Mr Denham has scathing things to say about Englishwomen and their lack of domestic virtues. He particularly selects their cooking as a target, but considers also that they are far inferior to the slant-eyed beauties of the Orient in the all-important matter of fidelity to their menfolk. Mr Denham is considered an authority on the women of Japan who, he says, are lovely, demure and submissive....On his own admission he has little time for anything except money, dalliance, and the “imbibing of liquors of all kinds”.’
    Anthony Burgess
  • "Stop, you idiot!" I bawled at her. Her face laughed over her shoulder at me. She walked without haste to the door, her short skirt of gray flannel shaping itself to the calf of each gray wool-stockinged leg as its mate stepped forward. Sweat greased the gun in my hand. When her right foot was on the doorsill, a little chuckling sound came from her throat. "Adieu!" she said softly. And I put a bullet in the calf of her leg. She sat down--plump! Utter surprise stretched her white face. It was too soon for pain. I had never shot a woman before. I felt queer about it. "You ought to have known I'd do it!" My voice sounded harsh and savage and like a stranger's in my ears. "Didn't I steal a crutch from a cripple?"
    Dashiell Hammett
  • His find he hid at the back of the closet in his own room upstairs. The crystal cube he slipped into his pocket, which already bulged with string, a coil of wire, two pennies, a wad of tinfoil, a grimy defenses stamp, and a chunk of feldspar. Emma, Scott's two-year-old sister, waddled unsteadily in from the hall and said hello. "Hello, Slug," Scott nodded, from his altitude of seven years and some months. He patronized Emma shockingly, but she didn't know the difference. Small, plump, and wide-eyed, she flopped down on the carpet and stared dolefully at her shoes. "Tie 'em, Scotty, please?" "Sap," Scott told her kindly, but knotted the laces.
    Lewis Padgett

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