EMBONPOINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embonpoint mean? 

• EMBONPOINT (noun)
  The noun EMBONPOINT has 1 sense:

1. the bodily property of being well rounded

  Familiarity information: EMBONPOINT used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBONPOINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bodily property of being well rounded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

embonpoint; plumpness; roundness

Hypernyms ("embonpoint" is a kind of...):

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "embonpoint"):

chubbiness; pudginess; rolypoliness; tubbiness (the property of having a plump and round body)

buxomness (the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed)

• EMBONPOINT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

Synonyms:

chubby; embonpoint; plump

Context example:

pleasingly plump

Similar:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)