BODIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bodied mean? 

• BODIED (adjective)
  The adjective BODIED has 2 senses:

1. having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination

2. possessing or existing in bodily form

  Familiarity information: BODIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination

Context example:

big-bodied

Similar:

incarnate (invested with a bodily form especially of a human body)

lithe-bodied (having a lithe body)

long-bodied (having a relatively long body)

narrow-bodied (having a relatively narrow body)

oval-bodied (having an oval body)

short-bodied (having a relatively short body)

silver-bodied; silvery-bodied (having a silver-colored body)

slender-bodied; slim-bodied; thin-bodied (having a slim body)

smooth-bodied (having a smooth body)

thick-bodied (having a thick body)

Also:

corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)

Antonym:

unbodied (having no body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Possessing or existing in bodily form

Synonyms:

bodied; corporal; corporate; embodied; incarnate

Context example:

'corporate' is an archaic term

Similar:

corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)

 Context examples 

Paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

For more than 30 million years after dinosaurs first appeared, they remained inexplicably rare near the equator, where only a few small-bodied meat-eating dinosaurs made a living.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)

It was not true business principle to allow credit to a strong-bodied young fellow of the working-class who was too lazy to work.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yet all were more like skeletons than full-bodied wolves.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“May I ask if they are all large, able-bodied men with powerful voices?”

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

The last time I was in the Commons, a civil able-bodied person in a white apron pounced out upon me from a doorway, and whispering the word Marriage-licence in my ear, was with great difficulty prevented from taking me up in his arms and lifting me into a proctor's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)