well-fed

Speech parts

1. well-fed - Adjective

2. well-fed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

properly nourished

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

well fed

Synonyms

well-nourished tubby chub fed chubby fat stuffed overweight fleshy pudgy portly overfed thickset paunchy high-fed

Antonyms

hungarian sun-dried syphilitic colicky foodless malnourished
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Examples

It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking. Julius Caesar

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Mark Twain

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. Herman Melville

The well-fed does not understand the lean. Irish Proverb

The well-fed man does not believe in hunger. Italian Proverb

The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

well-favored well-favoredness well-favoured well-filled well-fitted well-fixed