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)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胖 (cmn) (pàng), 肥胖 (cmn) (féipàng)

• French: corpulent (fr)
• German: korpulent (de), beleibt (de)
• Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos)
• Hindi: मोटा (hi) (moṭā)
• Hungarian: korpulens (hu)

• Icelandic: feitur (is), feitlaginn (is)
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian: корпулентно (sh), корпулентан (sh)

  Roman: korpulentno (sh) m, korpulentan (sh) m

• 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 (feminine corpulente, masculine plural corpulents, feminine plural corpulentes)

1. corpulent, stout

Related terms

• corpulence