fat
/ˈfæt/
adjective(of people or animals) weighing much more than what is thought to be healthy for their body
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1. The energy and most of the materials come from the three macronutrients: fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
2. Avoiding fats.
3. Bile salts emulsify fats.
4. Fats yield more energy per unit mass than carbohydrates.
5. Flour tortillas have fat in them.
overweight
/ˌoʊvɝˈweɪt/
adjectiveweighing too much or more than what is desired or expected
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1. Even vegetarians in the US are overweight.
2. Millions of us are overweight.
3. Almost 2 billion are overweight altogether.
4. The whole population is overweight.
5. 25 to 30 is overweight.
obese
/əˈbis/, /oʊˈbis/
adjectivevery fat in an unhealthy way
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1. One of you is obese.
2. a person becomes obese.
3. 18% of children are morbidly obese right now.
4. One is being obese.
5. As of 2016, around 650 million adults worldwide were obese.
ample
/ˈæmpəɫ/
adjectivedescribing a woman with a full and generous figure, often referring to a woman's breasts or hips
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1. We have ample supply now.
2. Those trees also provided ample firewood to humans.
3. The cargo space is ample.
4. Well, the evidence is, unfortunately, ample.
5. Whole baby clams give you ample iron too.
chubby
/ˈtʃəbi/
adjective(particularly of children and babies) slightly overweight in a way that is attractive
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1. - I'm chubby, though.
2. Chubby, you know, like the size of your big toe chubby.
3. His chubby fingers can speak volumes.
4. We did this-- - Chubby bunny.
5. He's chubby.
tubby
/ˈtəbi/
adjective(of a person) short and fat
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1. He had been working on a film called Tubby the Tuba.
2. When King Tubby left Treasure Isle to build his own studio, he did that not just to have his own space to experiment, but to produce unique dub versions for his own sound system: Tubby’s Hometown Hi-Fi.
3. In some headphones they become so thick and tubby because they're hypey in the low end that's so thick you can't hear through them.
4. That's a telly tubby, dude, that's not a spider anymore.
5. Nesting cups can make tubby time more fun, too.
stout
/ˈstaʊt/
adjective(of a person) slightly fat and heavy
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1. The stout and the espresso powder add so much depth to this cake.
2. - Perrier is pretty stout.
3. They've got really stout forks at Wendy's.
4. That was stout.
5. American stout is the American take on the foreign extra stout style.
chunky
/ˈtʃəŋki/
adjectiveoverweight or having a heavy-set, solid physique
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1. Really chunky HDMI cable.
2. I love it chunky.
3. The charger in the box is chunky for good reason.
4. - I like that, chunky.
5. Chunky chat masala though.
corpulent
/kˈɔːɹpjʊlənt/
adjectivefat and with a large body
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1. When the corpulent arms dealer Spiridon Scorpio commands Archer to bring chocolate to a threesome with himself and Lana, the superspy replies plainly, "I'd prefer not to."
2. He was just sort of corpulent.
3. He was the average kind of increasingly corpulent.
4. So my favorite is Tabby clue, but there's like corpulent shoots and ladders.
5. The portrait of this corpulent and obviously affluent gent is Sir Richard Arkwright, who was the creator of the most efficient early textile machinery, and who unlike many others about whom Clark talks, actually profited very handsomely from that work.
dumpy
/ˈdəmpi/
adjectivebeing short and plump or having a squat, unattractive physique
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1. Imagine a dumpy green owl the size of a small turkey, and you might be picturing something like the kākāpō!
2. They're just dumpy, un-[bleep]-able losers.
3. Love to Dumpy.
4. Number one is the Australian dumpy frog.
5. This little dumpy frog here loves his insects.
fleshy
/ˈfɫɛʃi/
adjectivehaving a body that is well-developed with plump or soft-looking flesh, but not necessarily overweight
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1. Imagine a fleshy cube.
2. See that fleshy tent there?
3. And hammer-headed bats have bulbous nose and fleshy lips.
4. It's very fleshy.
5. But legless lizards have fleshy tongues because they evolved from different lizard ancestors.
plump
/ˈpɫəmp/
adjective(of a person or body part) having a slightly chubby appearance
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1. I am plump.
2. it's plump.
3. Really plump noodles
4. Well-hydrated muscles will always look plump.
5. Your lips are really plump, too.
porky
/ˈpɔɹki/
adjective(of a person) obese or fat
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1. The texture is definitely very pulled porky.
2. It is so intensely porky.
3. Tada, the porkiest sundae that ever was.
4. We got our porky nuggs.
5. The texture is definitely very pulled porky.
portly
/ˈpɔɹtɫi/
adjective(especially of a man) having a stout build
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1. A single image of a portly man in silly clothes sat in an open-topped car, seconds before his death shattered an entire world.
2. When Parker Brothers bought the rights to Monopoly from Darrow in 1935, they soon added a portly mascot with a top hat and cane, rumoured to be modelled on wealthy banker J.P. Morgan.
3. The difference was your dad no offense to your dad a portly 40‑year‑old guy who was not made for this but absolutely put himself in.
4. A portly man sits before the defendant’s stand in the Chicago Federal Courthouse, nervously wiping his brow with a white handkerchief.
5. When you're a portly man, you really have to pay attention to your fit.
potbellied
/pˈɑːtbɛlɪd/
adjective(of a person or animal) having a round bulging stomach
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1. My wife and I have two Vietnamese potbellied pigs that live out in our backyard.
2. And here come the Asian potbellied racing pigs.
pudgy
/ˈpədʒi/
adjective(of a person) being slightly fat and chubby
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1. Jerry was a little pudgy.
2. you can visually see some of the fat stores in the pudgier parts of your body.
3. Oh my god Tony you're not that pudgy.
4. - What's the real pudgy Bugs Bunny meme, what's that guy called?
5. Dudley Dursley, as played by Harry Melling, was Harry's pudgy and cruel cousin who bullied him relentlessly before he started attending Hogwarts.
roly-poly
/ɹˈoʊlipˈɑːli/
adjectivebeing short and fat
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1. Steve Jobs would've had the little roly-poly cameras that go all around the screen.
2. It looks like a little roly-poly bridge.
3. The roly-poly is related directly to the giant isopod.
4. Maybe your baby is roly-poly all over.
5. Oh you got a little roly-poly.
rotund
/ɹoʊˈtənd/
adjectivehaving a plump body
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1. This rotund, barrel-like belly is on full display in the early herbivorous pelycosaur Cotylorhynchus, whose body dwarfed its tiny head.
2. See how rotund he is and how his tail doesn't quite seem to match up with the size of his body.
3. You might see the rotund, happy man, sitting there talking to kids and posing for photos, and think that his job is simple.
4. Rotund everyone sees when they come here.
5. Turtlenecks will make you look like a squat, rotund turtle.
fatty
/ˈfæti/
nounsignificantly overweight or having excessive body fat
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1. - My ears were really fatty.
2. Liver Damage Protein deficiency brings on fatty liver.
3. Fatty foods affect the metabolism of female hormones.
4. Fatty liver changes the way the liver functions.
5. - See these fatties?
fatso
/fˈætsoʊ/
nounan individual with a round physique
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1. - You make nicknames for people, like fatso.
2. They were calling me fatso cause of my weight.
thin
/ˈθɪn/
adjective(of people or animals) weighing less than what is thought to be healthy for their body
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1. The coffers are thin.
2. The margin is thin.
3. Other changes are thinning the ranks of securities analysts.
4. The culture of tomato sauce was thin.
5. Our blood is thin.
skinny
/ˈskɪni/
adjectivehaving a very low amount of body fat
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1. My arms look so skinny.
2. His street name is Skinny.
3. Your forehead is skinny though.
4. "All ya'll are skinny."
5. My jeans are really skinny.
underweight
/ˈəndɝˌweɪt/
adjectiveweighing less than the desired or normal amount
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1. Arthur is still underweight.
2. He was underweight.
3. [gentle snorting] Cubs are growing up underweight, which reduces their chances of survival.
4. So by the time all of his contractions are over, the soon-to-be-fathers are often critically underweight.
5. Underweight people are likely to experience one or the other form of coronary heart disease.
gaunt
/ˈɡɔnt/
adjective(of a person) excessively thin as a result of a disease, worry or hunger
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1. Sunken eyes stared out of its gaunt face, which broke into a crooked smile.
2. Navalny looked gaunt with a shaved head, after losing weight.
3. - I mean when we came back, they were both a little bit gaunt
4. I was gaunt.
5. As Aquitaine’s unwieldy new borders were being attacked, Edward III’s son John of Gaunt launched a limited chevauchée in Normandy before withdrawing back to Calais not long after.
scrawny
/ˈskɹɔni/
adjectivethin and bony in a way that is not pleasant
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1. These aren’t, like, little scrawny things, either.
2. I was a scrawny kid, you know?
3. Embiid scrawny seven foot frame caught the attention of fellow Cameroonian and NBA player, Luc Mbah a Moute, who helped him enroll at a high school in the States.
4. He was no longer the scrawny teenage boy scout who could easily shimmy his way through any crack and crevice.
5. He wouldn't be scrawny or anything, or very young looking.
emaciated
/ɪˈmeɪʃiˌeɪtɪd/
adjectivelooking thin, pale, or exhausted due to prolonged period of suffering, anxiety, or starvation
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1. His emaciated body finally breathed its last breath on April, 5th, 1976.
2. He is so emaciated!
3. His mom was like pretty emaciated.
4. Funguses already cover their emaciated bodies, like a warning of approaching death.
5. Funguses already cover their emaciated bodies, like a warning of approaching death.
anorexic
/ˌænɝˈɛksɪk/
adjectiveinvolving or suffering from anorexia
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1. You're anorexic.
2. Geoff, are you anorexic?
3. I was anorexic.
4. that's anorexic
5. Anorexic people will often refuse to eat food.
bony
/ˈboʊni/
adjectivebeing very thin in a way that the shapes of the bones are completely visible
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1. Maybe he does have bony claws.
2. A risk factor for giant cell tumors is having a bony trauma like a fracture or radiation exposure.
3. Multiple rows of sharp teeth are packed on two bony plates.
4. I liked his bony face, his hawk-eyes, his nose like a beak.
5. It is bony.
cadaverous
/kɐdˈævɚɹəs/
adjectivevery thin or pale in a way that is suggestive of an illness
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1. Hopefully this soda is less cadaverous.
2. There's a crazy new villain named Cadaverous that we can't wait for you to meet.
3. Here's one climbing out of the pool: First her face appeared, long and cadaverous, with a bandage-like bathing cap coming down almost to her eyes, and sharp teeth protruding from her mouth.
pinched
/ˈpɪntʃt/
adjectiveextremely emaciated, particularly due to illness, lack of food, or exposure to cold
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1. The rollers pinch the tube, so it bends kind of like a pinched straw.
2. People said it was a pinched nerve dah dah dah.
3. If the button hole is located too far up, you get a pinched shape that's extreme but you want this nice horse shoe shape.
puny
/ˈpjuni/
adjectivesmall and weak or frail in appearance, strength, or size
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1. Your one puny bomb was no match for our American brainmight.
2. In comparison, my shoulders are really puny.
3. It’s puny.
4. They were very puny.
5. And so, ergo, a small sized tree just looked puny.
scraggy
/skɹˈæɡi/
adjectivethin, bony, or skinny in an unattractive or unhealthy way
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1. As I entered the camp, a scraggy dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over!
2. As I entered the camp, a scraggy dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over!
skeletal
/ˈskɛɫətəɫ/
adjectiveresembling a skeleton in appearance due to being very thin or emaciated
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1. Remember skeletal structures of cyclohexane?
2. Regenerated lizard tails also regrow skeletal muscle.
3. Skeletal structure's gonna be pretty basic.
4. Tetanus only affects skeletal muscle.
5. We use skeletal muscles so much.
stringy
/ˈstɹɪŋi/
adjectivevery thin and having prominent muscles or tendons that appear like strings under their skin
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1. - Stringy cotton candy.
2. - It's so stringy.
3. It's pretty stringy.
4. This dude is stringy!
5. No, it's turning stringy.
slim
/ˈsɫɪm/
adjectivethin, in an attractive way
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1. Herrine: The dog itself is very slim.
2. The odds of that are probably very slim.
3. The chances of this are so slim. -
4. Their chances of success are increasingly slim.
5. You’ve already named him: Slim!
slender
/ˈsɫɛndɝ/
adjective(of a person or body part) attractively thin
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1. it's slender.
2. Sometimes they're slender.
3. Those are longer and more slender.
4. A slender mongoose, one of the only mongooses that can climb trees.
5. This is Slender.
lean
/ˈɫin/
adjective(of a person or animal) thin and fit in a way that looks healthy
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1. His three listeners leaned forward eagerly.
2. Leaning tower of Christmas tree.
3. Lean your face back.
4. - Lean that tray over.
5. Lean two loose bundles of the larger branches against either side of the tinder pile.
trim
/ˈtɹɪm/
adjectivephysically healthy, fit, and attractive
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1. Trim the end.
2. Trim the end of the pastry bag, here.
3. Trim the wire.
4. Trim your nails and nose hair.
5. Trim excess cuticle skin.
petite
/pəˈtit/
adjective(of a woman) small in an attractive way
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1. Your hint is: Petite feet.
2. Petite mutation is a good example.
3. They suit petite ladies.
4. You're petite.
5. You guys went really petite on your eggs.
dainty
/ˈdeɪnti/
adjectivepleasantly small and attractive
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1. Dainty eater, you might think?
2. IVY MIX: So dainty.
3. - Raccoon teeth are so dainty.
4. Oh, you're so dainty!
5. But this reason looks, like, super dainty, but- - Typical ring.
wiry
/ˈwɪɹi/
adjectivelean and sinewy
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1. They have this really wiry fur, and it does get greasy.
2. These guys are wiry.
3. It's a very wiry coat.
4. It is situated right here next to the inlayed wiry cloth mesh.
5. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.
sinewy
/ˈsɪnjui/
adjective(of a person or animal) having a thin body with strong muscles
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1. It has the sinewy economy of a beautiful suspension bridge.
2. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck.
3. While preparing for that role, Larson put on 15 pounds of muscle, combining early-morning deadlift sets with a no-B.S. diet to carve a sinewy physique.
4. I had anything sinewy.
5. The skinny, sinewy, muscly person, probably works well for people who are road racing.
spare
/ˈspɛɹ/
adjectivethin or lean, often implying that the person is not carrying excess weight
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1. I wish I could spare a truck.
2. BMW spared no expense.
3. This is back when he was still mining in his spare time.
4. She could rent out a spare room to offset the higher costs!
5. I’ll spare you the work.
delicate
/ˈdɛɫəkət/
adjectivesmall and attractive in shape, structure or appearance
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1. Her shoulders are delicate.
2. This pizza is delicate.
3. A snake of this size is rather delicate.
4. Hair is naturally delicate
5. Today's word is delicate.
elfin
/ˈɛɫfɪn/
adjectivesmall, delicate, and charming physical presence, often with a slightly mischievous quality
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1. It's gonna put a little spring into your elfin step.
2. He would be Elvin, not Elfin, right?
3. Rachel was a tall, toned, elegant Australian dancer whose elfin features and emerald green eyes mesmerized every person who was lucky enough to become acquainted with her.
4. but it cost so much more and it'll fall apart that you're better off driving to me on around then you're driving the stupid elfin lot see it's Italian company too
lissom
/lˈɪsəm/
adjectivedelicately thin and with an agile body
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svelte
/ˈsvɛɫt/
adjective(of a person) elegant and slender in built
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1. You all look very svelte and healthy.
2. I've gone from very thin to incredibly svelte.
3. Notice our svelte pig.
4. In Alaska, svelte figures don't last for long.
5. In Alaska, svelte figures don’t last for long.
big
/ˈbɪɡ/
adjectivehaving a larger-than-average physical size or build
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1. Mr. Miller had a shop in a big town.
2. The shoes on her feet are very big for her.
3. He has got a big smile on his face.
4. The decline in trading jobs and revenue hurt the big banks and large investment firms.
5. I wrote the story about Mexico's biggest pipeline explosion.
