Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plump

1 sense of plump

Sense 1
plump -- (the sound of a sudden heavy fall)
       => noise -- (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb plump

4 senses of plump

Sense 1
plummet, plump -- (drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted")
       => drop -- (to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets")

Sense 2
plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump -- (set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa")
       => set down, put down, place down -- (cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here")

Sense 3
fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up -- (make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 4
plump, go -- (give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates")
       => choose, take, select, pick out -- (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her")

Antonyms of adj plump

1 sense of plump

Sense 1
chubby, embonpoint, plump -- (sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";)

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 plump

1 sense of plump

Sense 1
chubby, embonpoint, plump -- (sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";)
       => fat (vs. thin) -- (having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was")

Synonyms of adv plump

1 sense of plump

Sense 1
plump -- (straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water")

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