corpulent

From Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.

corpulent (comparative more corpulent, superlative most corpulent)

1. Large in body; fat; overweight.
2. (obsolete) Physical, material, corporeal.

• In contemporary usage, "corpulent" can designate a range of bodily states, from modest plumpness to significant fatness to extreme obesity.

• See also Thesaurus:obese

• corpulence

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Borrowed from Middle French corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔr.pyˈlɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: cor‧pu‧lent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

corpulent (comparative corpulenter, superlative corpulentst)

1. overweight, corpulent

   Synonyms: gezet, lijvig

• corpulentheid
• corpulentie

From Middle French corpulent, from Old French corpulent, a borrowing from Latin corpulentus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.py.lɑ̃/

corpulent (feminine singular corpulente, masculine plural corpulents, feminine plural corpulentes)

1. corpulent, stout

• corpulence

• “corpulent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).