Word Meanings - PORTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing. 2. Bulky; corpulent. "A portly personage." Dickens.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PORTLY)

• Corpulent
• Stout
• burly
• fat
• portly
• gross
• lusty
• plethoric
• fleshy
• Fat
• brawny
• pursy
• rich
• luxuriant
• stout
• fertile
• unctuous
• obese
• oleaginous
• Plump
• Well-conditioned
• wellrounded
• chubby
• strapping
• bouncing
• full
• round
• massive

Related words: (words related to PORTLY)

• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• BOUNCING
  1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray. 2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet , the common soapwort . Harper's Mag.
• PLUMPNESS
  The quality or state of being plump.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• BOUNCE
  1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden. 2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;
• OLEAGINOUSNESS
  Oiliness. Boyle.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• PLETHORICAL
  Plethoric. -- Ple*thor"ic*al*ly, adv. Burke.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• CORPULENT
  1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. Holland. Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout.
• OBESENESS
  Quality of being obese; obesity.
• ROUNDHEAD
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
• PORTLY
  1. Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing. 2. Bulky; corpulent. "A portly personage." Dickens.
• ROUND
  To whisper. Shak. Holland. The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," . . . he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here" Calderwood.
• ROUNDURE
  Roundness; a round or circle. Shak.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• ENROUND
  To surround. Shak.