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单词 tubby
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tubby

adjective

tub·​by ˈtə-bē How to pronounce tubby (audio)
tubbier; tubbiest
1
: pudgy, fat
2
: sounding dull and without proper resonance or freedom of sound
a tubby violin

Synonyms

  • blubbery
  • chubby
  • corpulent
  • fat
  • fleshy
  • full
  • gross
  • lardy
  • obese
  • overweight
  • plump
  • podgy [chiefly British]
  • portly
  • pudgy
  • replete
  • roly-poly
  • rotund
  • round
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Example Sentences

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

First Known Use

circa 1807, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Kids Definition

tubby

adjective

tub·​by ˈtə-bē How to pronounce tubby (audio)
tubbier; tubbiest
: short and somewhat fat

tubby

adjective

as in plump
having an excess of body fat in America, Santa Claus is portrayed as a jolly but tubby older gentleman

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • plump
  • fat
  • round
  • chubby
  • pudgy
  • rotund
  • corpulent
  • portly
  • full
  • lardy
  • obese
  • overweight
  • husky
  • podgy
  • blubbery
  • stout
  • thick
  • fleshy
  • roly-poly
  • gross
  • heavy
  • stocky
  • replete
  • ripe
  • heavyset
  • beefy
  • burly
  • thickset
  • paunchy
  • chunky
  • bulky
  • squat
  • stubby
  • potbellied
  • soft
  • flabby
  • dumpy
  • brawny
  • buxom
  • hippy
  • zaftig
  • plumpish
  • weighty
  • hefty
  • endomorphic
  • ample
  • corn-fed
  • zoftig

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • skinny
  • thin
  • slender
  • lean
  • lanky
  • bony
  • slim
  • gaunt
  • angular
  • lank
  • spare
  • scrawny
  • sinewy
  • skeletal
  • haggard
  • rawboned
  • emaciated
  • puny
  • cadaverous
  • pinched
  • weedy
  • scraggy
  • slight
  • spindly
  • wasted
  • svelte
  • reedy
  • boney
  • stringy
  • willowy
  • twiggy
  • rangy
  • waspish
  • anorexic
  • sylphlike
  • ectomorphic
  • spindling
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