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corpulent
What does corpulent mean?
corpulent (adjective): excessively fat.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use corpulent in a sentence?
- I was very corpulent. (Tatoeba sentence #13106929 by rul, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce corpulent?
/ˈkoɹpjəlɪnt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does corpulent come from?
From Middle English corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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