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Antonyms for portliness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pawrt-lee, pohrt-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɔrt li, ˈpoʊrt-

Definition of portliness

Origin :
  • early 15c., "stately, dignified," from port (n.3) "bearing, carriage" + -ly (1). Meaning "stout" is first recorded 1590s.
  • As in obesity : noun corpulence
  • As in corpulence : noun obesity
  • As in fatness : noun overweight
Example sentences :
  • Considering their enormous appetites, their portliness seems only natural.
  • Extract from : « Birds in London » by W. H. Hudson
  • And Tommy Chadwick stood in all his portliness on the platform.
  • Extract from : « The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories » by Arnold Bennett
  • The personage was also of a portliness, and the collision had knocked the wind out of him.
  • Extract from : « Helmet of Navarre » by Bertha Runkle
  • Mr. Newsome was tall and broad and well on the way to portliness.
  • Extract from : « Rose of Old Harpeth » by Maria Thompson Daviess
  • Suddenly he laid his hat back, and drew up his form into as near a semblance of dignity as its portliness would allow.
  • Extract from : « A Strange Disappearance » by Anna Katharine Green
  • The assent had been arduous for a gentleman inclined to portliness and with wind impaired by tobacco.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of an Old Fool » by Roswell Field
  • He was a large man, tall, with broad shoulders and somewhat inclined to portliness.
  • Extract from : « Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants » by H. Irving Hancock
  • His height is about five feet ten inches; his figure very well made and slightly inclining to portliness.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864 » by Various
  • He was then thirty-one years of age, and of a compact, well-built figure, inclining to portliness.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 » by John Charles Dent
  • The other, solid almost to portliness, was suggestive of fixity—of self-dependence, and unsusceptibility to outside influences.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 » by John Charles Dent

Synonyms for portliness

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