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portly
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of PORTLY
1
having an excess of body fat <a portly gentleman who clearly didn't get enough exercise>
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
2
having or showing a formal and serious or reserved manner <walked with the portly grace of the grande dame that she was>
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