Plump

Quick meaning: Plump is an adjective meaning Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
2. (wine) Of a wine: giving the sensation of filling the mouth.
3. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
4. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
5. (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
6. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
7. (intransitive) To favor or decide in favor of. [with for ‘something’]

Example Sentences

Her cheeks have plumped.

a plump baby; plump cheeks

I've said so haven't I? Plump and plain.

The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.

Word Forms

• plumper
• plumpest
• plumps
• plumping
• plumped

Synonyms for plump

Depending on context, synonyms include slump, buxom, zaftig, plop, plummet, plunk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fat, embonpoint, chubby, fatten, zaftig, buxom.

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