plump

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plʌmp/
• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Verb

plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)

1. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
2. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
3. (intransitive) To give a plumper.
4. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
5. (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
6. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.

Adjective

plump (comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)

1. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
2. Fat.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:obese

Antonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:scrawny

Translations

Having a full and rounded shape, chubby

Arabic: سمين (ar) Finnish: pyylevä (fi), pullea (fi), pulska (fi) French: potelé (fr), rebondi (fr), dodu (fr) m.

Greek: στρουμπουλός m. (stroumboulós), αφράτος m. (afrátos) Hungarian: molett (hu)

Adverb

plump

1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

References

• plump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

plump (comparative plumper, superlative am plumpesten)

1. crude, clumsy