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Corpulent vs Tubby - What's the difference?

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Corpulent is a related term of tubby.


As adjectives the difference between corpulent and tubby

is that corpulent is large in body; fat; overweight while tubby is stout, rotund.

As a noun tubby is

(pejorative|slang|often used teasingly) an overweight person.

corpulent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Large in body; fat; overweight.
  • (obsolete) Physical, material, corporeal.

    • Usage notes

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

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * corpulence

    References

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

    tubby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • stout, rotund
  • Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
    • a tubby violin

    Derived terms

    * tubbiness

    Noun

    (tubbies)
  • (pejorative, slang, often used teasingly) An overweight person.

    • Derived terms

    * Teletubby