Adjectives for Fat/thin person

[Freeguy]

What's your opinion? Can you give me more advanced words or something for a fat/thin person?
Thank you

 

[Javierdl97]

for fat: heavyset or ropy-poly.

 

[emsr2d2]

Javierdl, did you mean "roly-poly"?

 

[emsr2d2]

I've never heard "husky" used for anything other than describing a voice.

 

[Javierdl97]

Yes, I'm sorry.

 

[Tdol]

Bariatric is in use now as an alternative to obese. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bariatric

 

[Matthew Wai]

Bony, skeletal.

Not a teacher.

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

The picture brings to mind emaceated, cadaverous, twiggy for the thin girl.

The fat man suggests distended, gargantuan, porcine. No offence intended.

 

[SoothingDave]

I've never heard "husky" used for anything other than describing a voice.

"Husky" is the word used for the sizes of pants/jeans in the US that are larger than "regular."

 

[Matthew Wai]

Hefty, bulky.

Not a teacher.

 

[BobK]

A euphemism that's common-(ish) in Br E is 'well-covered'.

b

 

[Barb_D]

Many on the thin side don't work. Many athletic people and most people you'd describe as "muscular" or "ripped" are not "skinny."

I prefer zaftig on the other side of the chart.

 

[SoothingDave]

"Rubenesque" is another good one.

 

[BobK]

Many on the thin side don't work. Many athletic people and most people you'd describe as "muscular" or "ripped" are not "skinny."

...

Well I wouldn't call anyone 'ripped', or indeed 'zaftig'. ;-)

b

 

[Matthew Wai]

Would people say "horizontally enhanced"?

 

[Freeguy]

I am not a teacher.

The picture brings to mind emaceated, cadaverous, twiggy for the thin girl.

The fat man suggests distended, gargantuan, porcine. No offence intended.

Do you mean "emaciated?

 

[Roman55]

Yes I do. It was a typo.

 

[emsr2d2]

For the girl, I'm inclined to suspect "anorexic/bulimic".

 

[Tdol]

Would people say "horizontally enhanced"?

I haven't heard it, but I do like it. ;-)

 

[BobK]

I haven't met it either, but I have heard 'vertically challenged' to mean 'short'. Horizontally/vertically <past-participle>' seems to be catching on. ;-)

b