plump

plump is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as adverb, noun, adjective, transitive verb, adjective & verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 16 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 11 · Words With Friends 16 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adverb. Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
2. noun. A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
3. adjective. To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
4. adjective. To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
5. adjective. To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
6. transitive verb. To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.
7. transitive verb. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
8. transitive verb. To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
9. adjective & verb. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
10. noun. the sound of a sudden heavy fall
11. verb. give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number

    "I plumped for the losing candidates"

    Synonyms: go

12. verb. make fat or plump

    "We will plump out that poor starving child"

    Synonyms: fat, fatten

13. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plunk

14. verb. drop sharply

    "The stock market plummeted"

    Synonyms: plummet

15. adjective. sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

    "a chubby child"

    "pleasingly plump"

    Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint

16. adverb. straight down especially heavily or abruptly

    "the anchor fell plump into the sea"

    "we dropped the rock plump into the water"

Synonyms

go, fat, fatten, flump, plank, plonk, plop, plunk, plummet, chubby, embonpoint

Common word forms

plumps, plumped, plumpen, plumper, plumply, plumpest, plumping, plumpness

Words from these letters

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