MEANING
Having a large, heavy body, especially because of excess fat; stout or bulky.
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Use in deliberate characterization or grotesque body description.Shape a character’s physical presence or silhouette without confusing size with menace.
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- corpulent figure
- corpulent body
- corpulent silhouette
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The corpulent surgeon moved slowly through the narrow, bloodless ward.
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A formal, sometimes blunt or old-fashioned description of body size; use without implying character or moral qualities.
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