paunchy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of PAUNCHY

having a large protruding abdomen <not surprisingly, the new Hollywood biopic casts a young, athetically trim actor in the role of the paunchy, balding artist>

Synonyms beer-bellied, potbellied

Related Words chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby; flabby, soft

Near Antonyms chiseled (or chiselled), cut; lean, lithe, skinny, slender, slim, spare, svelte, sylphlike

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