CORPULENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corpulent mean? 

• CORPULENT (adjective)
  The adjective CORPULENT has 1 sense:

1. excessively fat

  Familiarity information: CORPULENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORPULENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessively fat

Synonyms:

corpulent; obese; rotund; weighty

Context example:

a weighty man

Similar:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

Derivation:

corpulence (the property of excessive fatness)

 Context examples 

His body was absolutely corpulent, but his face, though massive, had preserved something of the sharpness of expression which was so remarkable in that of his brother.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came a picture of a cheerful and corpulent ecclesiastic in a shovel hat, sitting opposite a very thin European, and the inscription: "Lunch with Fra Cristofero at Rosario."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest—more than once she almost throttled him, athletic as he was.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When he was gone I turned immediately to Jordan—constrained to assure her of my surprise. I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)