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embonpoint

adj · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • äɴbôɴpwĕɴ
  • /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Plump, chubby, buxom.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ample, beer-bellied, big, bulky, chubby, chunky, embonpoint, fat, flabby, fleshy, full-figured, fulsome, gorbellied, gorrel-bellied, heavy, heavyset, love-handled, meaty, overnourished, paunchy, pleasantly plump, plump, plus-size, portly, potbellied, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, Rubenesque, sonsy, swagbellied, thick, tubby, well-covered, well-padded, well-rounded, well-upholstered, wide, built, buxom, curvaceous, curvesome, curvy, juicy, sensual, luscious, pneumatic, red-hot, thicc, toothsome, voluptuous, well-endowed, well-proportioned, zaftig

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure;

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a chubby child
  • pleasingly plump

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chubby, plump

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

the bodily property of being well rounded

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: plumpness, roundness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fleshiness, obesity, corpulency

Narrower terms: chubbiness, pudginess, tubbiness, rolypoliness, buxomness

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French embonpoint.

Across languages

Translations

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: muodokas — plump, chubby, buxom
  • Japanese: ぽっちゃり (potchari) — plump, chubby, buxom
  • Russian: по́лный (pólnyj) — plump, chubby, buxom
  • Russian: доро́дный (doródnyj) — plump, chubby, buxom
  • Serbo-Croatian: pun — plump, chubby, buxom
  • Serbo-Croatian: punašan — plump, chubby, buxom
  • Spanish: rechoncho — plump, chubby, buxom
  • Spanish: rollizo — plump, chubby, buxom
  • Finnish: muodokkuus — plumpness
  • French: embonpoint — plumpness
  • German: Embonpoint — plumpness
  • Russian: полнота́ (polnotá) — plumpness
  • Russian: доро́дность (doródnostʹ) — plumpness
  • Serbo-Croatian: punašnost — plumpness