Antonyms of adj porcine

2 of 3 senses of porcine

Sense 2
gross, porcine -- (repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man")

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)

Sense 3
hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish -- (resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food")

INDIRECT (VIA gluttonous) -> abstemious -- (sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy)

Similarity of adj porcine

3 senses of porcine

Sense 1
porcine -- (relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures")

Sense 2
gross, porcine -- (repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man")
       => fat (vs. thin) -- (having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was")

Sense 3
hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish -- (resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food")
       => gluttonous (vs. abstemious) -- (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure")

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