Thesaurus / bellied
FEEDBACK- accumulate
- add to
- balloon
- bloat
- bulge
- enlarge
- expand
- fatten
- grow
- increase
- mount
- rise
- surge
- aggravate
- amplify
- augment
- belly
- billow
- blister
- dilate
- distend
- enhance
- extend
- heighten
- intensity
- plump
- pouch
- pout
- protrude
- puff
- tumefy
- uprise
- become bloated
- become distended
- become swollen
- be inflated
- fill out
- grow larger
- puff up
- round out
- well up
- undulate
- balloon
- belly
- bloat
- bounce
- bulge
- heave
- pitch
- ripple
- rock
- roll
- swell
- toss
- wave
- ebb and flow
- puff up
- rise and fall
- rise up
- bloat
- protrude
- swell
- bag
- balloon
- beetle
- billow
- dilate
- distend
- enlarge
- expand
- extrude
- jut
- overhang
- poke out
- protuberate
- bug out
- pop out
- puff out
- stand out
- stick out
- bulge
- bulge out
- bag
- balloon
- beetle
- belly
- bilge
- billow
- bloat
- dilate
- distend
- enlarge
- expand
- extrude
- jut
- jut out
- overhang
- poke out
- pouch
- project
- protrude
- swell
- bug out
- pop out
- puff out
- stand out
- stick out
- abridge
- decline
- decrease
- diminish
- drop
- fall
- lessen
- lose
- lower
- reduce
- shrink
- slump
- compress
- condense
- contract
- curtail
- shorten
- concentrate
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use bellied in a sentence
Myiodynastes luteiventris luteiventris Sclater: Sulfur-bellied Flycatcher.
SUMMER BIRDS FROM THE YUCATAN PENINSULAERWIN E. KLAASAs they went cutting sidewise through the water, the sails bellied taut, with the wind filling and overflowing them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINCalves thus brought up, have often proved light-bellied, indifferent feeders, and decidedly inferior animals.
DOMESTIC ANIMALSRICHARD L. ALLENI opened a big-bellied one indeed, and found it full of spawn.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, VOL. 1GILBERT WHITEThe shad-bellied coat was bad enough—you could take that off, though—but there was something worse that stayed on.
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERSCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYMrs. Rond lent me a huge-bellied stove, the fireplace no longer proving of comfort.
TRAMPING ON LIFEHARRY KEMPAs the yellow-bellied woodpecker was the most abundant species in these woods, I attributed it to him.
A YEAR IN THE FIELDSJOHN BURROUGHSPot-bellied idols smirked in every corner; lion and tiger skins were spread on the floor.
DRY FISH AND WETANTHON BERNHARD ELIAS NILSENAfter all, I ought to have scotched the rusty, red-bellied water-snake leering at me now.
ROOF AND MEADOWDALLAS LORE SHARP"Good old tun-bellied divines," and others of the species, come in for their share of raillery.
FLOWERS OF FREETHOUGHTGEORGE W. FOOTE