Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

a plump baby; plump cheeks

The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.

My ideal is to be idle and to love a plump girl.

He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.

After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas.

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

A plump wine, with an abundance of plum and berry characteristics and soft, round tannins. Easy to drink; ready on release.

Her cheeks have plumped.

Word Forms

• plumper
• more plump
• plumpest
• most plump
• plumps
• plumping
• plumped

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Use plump when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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