corpulent

English

Adjective

corpulent (comparative more corpulent, superlative most corpulent)

1. Large in body; fat; overweight.
2. (obsolete) Physical, material, corporeal.

Usage notes

• In contemporary usage, "corpulent" can designate a range of bodily states, from modest plumpness to significant fatness to extreme obesity.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:obese

Derived terms

• corpulence

Translations

large in body; fat

Bengali: মোটা (bn) (moṭa) Bosnian: korpulentan (bs) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 胖 (zh) (pàng), 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng) French: corpulent (fr) German: korpulent (de), beleibt (de) Hindi: मोटा (hi) (moṭā) Hungarian: korpulens (hu)

Icelandic: feitur m., feit f., feitt n.; feitlaginn m., feitlagin f., feitlagið n. Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan) Russian: полный (ru) (pólnyj), тучный (ru) (túčnyj), дородный (ru) (doródnyj), (impolite) жирный (ru) (žírnyj), (impolite) толстый (ru) (tólstyj), корпулентный (ru) (korpuléntnyj) Serbian: корпулентно (sr) Spanish: obeso (es) Urdu: موٹا (ur) (moṭā)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

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French

Adjective

corpulent m. (f. corpulente, m. plural corpulents, f. plural corpulentes)

1. corpulent, stout

Related terms

• corpulenece