Lean and Obese

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Lean

Lean adjective - Having a noticeably small amount of body fat.
Usage example: all of the marathoners are extremely lean
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Antonyms for Lean
Obese is an antonym for lean in thin topic.
Nearby Words: leaning, leaned, leanness, leant

Obese

Obese adjective - Having an excess of body fat.
Usage example: the basset hound was so obese that its stomach touched the floor
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Lean is an antonym for obese in fat topic.
Nearby Word: obesity
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Both words in one sentence

  • Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa The tall and lean King and the short, obese Queen in Muzzy in Gondoland.
    Source: Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa
  • Adipose Rex Dungeons & Dragons: Orcus, in addition to fulfilling the royalty factor thanks to the trope he named, was always depicted as obese before the third edition Book of Vile Darkness's statblock on him illustrated him as lean and muscular.
    Source: Adipose Rex
  • Adipose Rex Blackadder has BRIAN BLESSED as a king in the first series, plus the weird case of the Prince Regent in Blackadder the Third, who is played by the tall, lean, lanky Hugh Laurie, but is still mocked for being obese like he was in real life (see below).
    Source: Adipose Rex
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