fleshy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of FLESHY

full of juice <fleshy apples, the kind good for making cider>

Synonyms fleshy, pulpy, succulent

Related Words sappy, watery

Near Antonyms dehydrated, desiccated, dry, sere (also sear), shriveled (or shrivelled), withered

Antonyms juiceless, sapless

having an excess of body fat <the fleshy man slowly heaved himself out of his chair>

Synonyms blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

Related Words beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty; brawny, burly, hefty, husky; dumpy, squat, stubby; hippy, paunchy, potbellied; flabby, soft; ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig); endomorphic

Near Antonyms angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy; cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted; puny, scraggy, scrawny, slight; rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy; ectomorphic; anorexic

Antonyms lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

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