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Definitions

chubby

[chuhb-ee] / ˈtʃʌb i /
ADJECTIVE
slightly fat
Synonyms
STRONGEST
chunky flabby plump portly pudgy stout
WEAK
ample bearish big butterball buxom fat fleshy full-figured hefty husky pleasingly plump plumpish podgy roly-poly rotund round tubby zaftig
Antonyms
STRONGEST
lean skinny slim thin

Example Sentences

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"Fabio looks a bit chubby to me," responded Sutton.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Soon after he was spotted, a San Francisco-based Redditor named Des Tan called him Chonker, a play on chonky, which is slang for humorously chubby, and it stuck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

In early scenes, he has a small curved line denoting a chubby chin, which changes over time to straight lines on each cheek, narrowing his face when he is old and infirm.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

I envisioned a chubby, beautiful woman struggling with the beauty ideal.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

Great Ellen loved to tell the story: how small Sparrow had beelined across the gallery on chubby hands and knees to the orchids that hadn’t bloomed since the Carnage.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor