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EMBONPOINT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bodily property of being well rounded

Synonyms:

embonpoint; plumpness; roundness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("embonpoint" is a kind of...):

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "embonpoint"):

chubbiness; pudginess; rolypoliness; tubbiness (the property of having a plump and round body)

buxomness (the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

Example:

pleasingly plump

Synonyms:

chubby; embonpoint; plump

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

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