Plump

English

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 Thesaurus:obese

Antonyms

• See also Thesaurus:scrawny

Adverb

Plump

1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Adverbs for Plump

delightfully; desirably; commendably; terribly; pleasantly; admirably; childishly; overly; unhappily; chubbily; stalwartly; strappingly; thumpingly; extraordinarily; remarkably; charmingly; daintily; rosily; exquisitely; pleasingly.

Thesaurus

abruptly, adipose, ample, at once, back, ballot, bang, beamy, become overweight, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, blunt, bosomy, brawny, bump, burly, busty, buxom, campaign for, canvass, cast, cast a ballot, cave, cave in, chink, choose, chubby, chuck, chunky, clap, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, collapse, corpulent, crump, cushion, dash, decline, definite, definitive, deposit, direct, directly, distended, dive, divide, downright, droop, drop, dull thud, dumpy, ease, engross, exactly, fall, fat, fatten, fattish, fleshy, flick, fling, flop, flop down, fluff, flump, flump down, flush, forthright, founder, full, full-bodied, gain weight, gather flesh, gentle, give way, go down, gross, hastily, heavyset, hefty, hippy, hurl, impetuously, imposing, impulsively, kerplunk, knead, lapse, laxate, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, limber, limber up, loosen, lower, lusty, mash, massage, matter-of-fact, meaty, mellow, milden, mollify, nose-dive, obese, of a sudden, on short notice, overweight, pad, parachute, pat, patter, paunchy, pinguefy, pitapat, pitch, pitter-patter, plain, plank, plop, plop down, plumb, plummet, plunge, plunk, podgy, point-blank, poll, pop, portly, potbellied, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, precisely, pudgy, puff up, puffy, pulp, pursy, put down, put on weight, rap, relax, right, roly-poly, rotund, round, roundabout, sag, select, set, set down, settle, settle down, shake up, sharp, side with, simple, sink, sink down, skin-dive, sky-dive, slap, slouch, slump, slump down, smack, smack-dab, smash, soften, soften up, sound, spang, square, squarely, squash, squat, squatty, stalwart, startlingly, steatopygous, stocky, stoop, stout, straight, strapping, subdue, submerge, subside, sudden, suddenly, supple, support, surprisingly, swag, swollen, swoop, swoop down, take a header, tap, tenderize, thick-bodied, thickset, throw, thrust, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, tone down, top-heavy, toss, tubby, tune down, tunk, unambiguous, unawares, unequivocal, unexpectedly, unmistakable, vote, well-fed, without notice, without warning

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plʌmp/
• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Translations

Adjective

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)

References

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

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German

Adjective

Plump (comparative plumper, superlative am plumpesten)

1. crude, clumsy

Pronunciation

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