buxom

buxom is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
2. adjective. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
3. adjective. (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous - Robt.A.Hamilton

   "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"

   Synonyms: zaftig, zoftig

4. adjective. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves

   "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"

   "a curvy young woman in a tight dress"

   Synonyms: bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous

Synonyms

zaftig, zoftig, bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous

Common word forms

buxomer, buxomly, buxomest, buxomness

Words from these letters

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