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When something attenuates, it lessens in size or intensity; it becomes thin or weakened.
The word corporeal refers to the physical or material world rather than the spiritual; it also means characteristic of the body rather than the mind or feelings.
When there is a dearth of something, there is a scarcity or lack of it.
A decadent person has low moral standards and is more interested in pleasure than serious matters.
If a part of your body distends, it becomes swollen and unnaturally large.
A person or animal that is emaciated is extremely thin because of a serious illness or lack of food.
Something ethereal has a delicate beauty that makes it seem not part of the real world.
A gaunt person is extremely thin, often due to an extended illness or a lack of food over a long period of time.
Someone who has a haggard appearance looks very tired, worn, thin, and exhausted.
If someone’s mind is limber, they can readily adapt to new situations.
If a dancer is lissome, she moves gracefully and is very flexible.
Someone with a lithe body can move easily and gracefully.
If someone is rotund, they have a round and fat body.
If you say that something is somatic, you mean that it relates to or affects the body and not the mind.
The adjective svelte describes a person who is attractive, slender, and possesses a graceful figure.
Something that is tangible is able to be touched and thus is considered real.
Something tenuous is thin, weak, and unconvincing.
Someone who is ungainly is clumsy or awkward; something ungainly can be difficult to use, primarily because of its size or weight.
Adj.
corpulent
KOHR-pyuh-luhnt
Context
My father, who used to be a thin man, grew more and more corpulent or big as he grew older because he switched his diet from mainly plants to primarily fatty fried foods. His weight ballooned over the ensuing years; because he also stopped exercising, his condition became more corpulent or much fatter. I finally begged him to see his doctor, who told him that being excessively overweight or corpulent is hard on every part of the body. After having had this wake-up call, my father switched his diet back to plants and began to exercise once again; soon after his corpulent state vanished . . . and he is now healthier and thinner than he was twenty years ago!
Quiz:Try again!
If a store sells clothing for corpulent people, what do they sell?
Clothing for people who wear a certain uniform to work.
Clothing for people who are large and overweight.
Clothing for people who spend a lot of money to look good.
GorpLent to Porpoise When I was hiking I lent my friend so much gorp, or trail mix, that he turned corpulent as a roly-poly porpoise, swimming in his own fat.
Examples
Although some women are starting to abandon the old ideal of beauty for a healthier and more streamlined one, men still cling to the corpulent canon.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The corpulent Marlon Brando will never eclipse the forever lanky [James] Dean, and [Marilyn] Monroe has far more staying power than an Alzheimer’s—stricken Rita Hayworth ever will.
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USA Today
After days of battling other corpulent contenders, 747 was crowned 2020’s Fat Bear Week champion, beating 32 “Chunk” in the finals on Fat Bear Tuesday.
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The Washington Post
A corpulent person is too “rich in or full of” the “body.”
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Related Words
corporeal ·
decadent ·
distend ·
rotund ·
somatic ·
tangible ·
ungainly ·
attenuate ·
dearth ·
emaciated ·
ethereal ·
gaunt ·
haggard+ ·
limber ·
lissome ·
lithe ·
svelte ·
tenuous ·
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Word Variants
corpulence
n
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obesity; being excessively fat
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