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dumpy

adjective

1 dumpy

Resembling a garbage dump.

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, ... show more

2 dumpy

Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature:
— A dumpy little dumpling of a woman.

synonyms: chunky, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy.

Roget 201: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate; ... show more

Roget 202: broad, wide, ample, extended; discous; fanlike; outspread, outstretched; wide as a church-door" [Romeo and Juliet]; latifoliate, latifolous.    thick, ... show more

Roget 193: little; small etc. (in quantity) 32; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable etc. (unimportant) 643; exiguous, ... show more

Polish: przysadzisty

3 dumpy

Short and plump.

synonyms: podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby.


Moby thesaurus: Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin ... show more.

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