Antonyms of adj paunchy

1 sense of paunchy

Sense 1
abdominous, paunchy, potbellied -- (having a large belly)

INDIRECT (VIA fat) -> thin, lean -- (lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare)

Similarity of adj paunchy

1 sense of paunchy

Sense 1
abdominous, paunchy, potbellied -- (having a large belly)
       => fat (vs. thin) -- (having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was")

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