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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.
If someone looks gaunt, they are very thin, usually because they are ill, tired, or worried.
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.
A svelte person, most often a female, describes one 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
KAWR-pyuh-luhnt
Context
My father, never a thin man, grew more and more corpulent as he grew older and ate fattier foods. His weight ballooned hugely over the years, and after a while he was so corpulent that I feared for his heart. I finally begged him to see his doctor, who told him that being so excessively overweight or corpulent is hard on every part of the body, not to mention the chairs!
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 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
There, staring back at me from the floor like an accusation, was a reading that was nearly two and one half pounds more of my corpulent self.
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Men's Health
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 Dean, and Monroe has far more staying power than an Alzheimer’s — stricken Rita Hayworth ever will.
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USA Today
Any fears I had about the trip’s physical demands were quashed when I met a smiling and corpulent 11-year-old who would be hiking with us.
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BNET
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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