Portly

Definition: Portly

Portly

Adjective

1. Euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout".

Date "portly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Portly \Port"ly\, adjective. [From Port demeanor.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Portly

Synonym: stout (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Size	Corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Portly

English words defined with "portly": Portliness ♦ stout. (references)

Specialty definitions using "portly": Number Nip. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Portly McSwine (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Ship's crew at their battle stations, shortly after her June 1864 action with CSS Alabama. View looks aft from the forecastle, showing both XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore cannon trained to starboard, as they were during the fight. Portly officer in the center foreground appears to be Acting Master James R. Wheeler. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Portly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Portly" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	68	40,606

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Language		Translations for "portly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i shëndoshë (chopping, corpulent, good, healthy, sound, stout), i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty), i mbushur (brimful, charged, crowded, filled, fraught, full, loaded, packed, padded, plump, replete, thick). (various references)

Arabic		‏مكرش (potbellied), ‏مهيب (august, awesome, awful, fearful, grand, imposing, magnificent, majestic, solemn, sublime, venerable), ‏سمين (beefy, corpulent, fat, fleshy, obese, plump, puffy, pulpy, ripe, stout), ‏جليل (august, dignified, exalted, glorious, grand, grave, great, honorable, honourable, important, imposing, lofty, magnificent, respectable, significant, solemn, splendid, stately, sublime, venerable), ‏بدين (beefy, chubby, corpulent, fatty, fleshy, hefty, obese, overblown, overweight, plump, puffy, replete, rotund, squabby, stout, tubby). (various references)

Bulgarian		солиден (lusty, massive, massy, pucka, pukka, rugged, secure, solid, sound, steady, sterling, substantial, trustworthy, valid), внушителен (awesome, compulsive, gallant, grave, handsome, heroic, imperial, imposing, impressive, noble, proud, towering), едър (big, bouncing, burly, coarse, full, gross, husky, large, massive, massy, overblown, solid, strapping, substantial, walloping), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), представителен (comely, gallant, handsome, personable, representative). (various references)

Czech		vážný (austere, dangerous, earnest, good, grave, major, mellow, pensive, serious, solemn, solid, stern, straight, strong, wistful), usedlý (resident, residential, sedate, staid), tìlnatý (corpulent, obese), statný (burly, gallant, hefty, robust, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, valid). (various references)

French		corpulent. (various references)

German		korpulent (corpulent, fat, large, stout), füllig (ample, bouffant, corpulent, generous, opulent, stout), beleibt (corpulent, stout, stoutly), behäbig (complacent, sedans, solid, stolid, well to do). (various references)

Greek		παχύσ (adipose, fat, fatty, obese, plump), εύσωμοσ (burly, robust, stout). (various references)

Hebrew		שמ� מן (adipose, chubby, corpulent, fattish, plump, pudgy, rotund, stout), כרסן (paunchy, potbellied, potbelly), כרסתן (bellied, paunchy, potbellied), כרס� י (paunchy, potbellied), בעל בשר (corpulent, stout). (various references)

Hungarian		méltóságteljes (commanding, dignified, graceful, lordly, majestic, majestical, pontifical). (various references)

Indonesian		bagong (cumbersome, ponderous, wild boar). (various references)

Italian		grosso (big, bold, bouncing, corpulent, fat, great, gross, heavy, important, large, lumping, thick, thickly), corpulento (burly, corpulent, fat, full-bodied, obese, pursy, stout, tubby). (various references)

Manx		staydoil (ceremonious, lordly, pompous, sedate, stately). (various references)

Pig Latin		ortlypay

Portuguese		corpulência (bulk, corpulence, fleshly, fullness, fulness, stoutness). (various references)

Romanian		solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hard and fast, hefty, massive, massy, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), masiv (big, bulky, burly, fat, full, heap, heavy, massif, massive, massively, massy, rugged, solid, stout, substantial, unwieldy, voluminous, wholesale), impunãtor (commanding, dignified, grandiose, imposing, spectacular, stately, tremendous), falnic (glorious, gorgeous, remarkable, splendid, stately, towering), corpolent (burly, corpulent, fat, in flesh, stout). (various references)

Russian		полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-bodied, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, unabridged, uncut, utter). (various references)

Scottish		st� ideil (stately). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		naočit (gallant, personable, sightly, viewy). (various references)

Spanish		gordo (corpulent, fat, fatso, fatty, fleshy, greasy, plump, porky, rotund, stout, thick, top), corpulento (abdominous, burly, corpulent, heavy, heavy-set). (various references)

Swedish		ståtlig (gallant, handsome, lofty, lordly, noble, pompous, proud, proud-stomached, stately), fetlagd (buxom, fubsy, inclined to stoutness, stout). (various references)

Turkish		yapılı (bodied, built, sturdy, well knit, well-made), iri yarı (amply dimensioned, beefy, big, burly, chopping, hefty, stout), iri (ample, big, bulky, chopping, corpulent, large, massive), şişman (corpulent, elephantine, fat, fatty, fleshy, in flesh, obese, overweight, stout). (various references)

Ukrainian		товстий (abdominous, corpulent, fat, fubsy, lumpish, obese, podgy, porky, pudgy, rotund, sizable, sizeable, thick), величний (andean, awful, dignified, elevated, exalted, godlike, lofty, magnific, magnifical, majestic, noble, olympian, princely, proud, sovereign, stately), огрядний (burly, corpulent, obese, overblown, plump, stout), показний (affected, catchpenny, conspicuous, flashy, imposing, meretricious, orchidaceous, ostensible, ostensive, ostentatious, presentable, pretentious, showy, specious, sporty, stagey, stagy). (various references)

Vietnamese		béo tốt (corpulent), đẫy đ� bệ vệ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Portly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hortly, Ortlieb, portry, porty, potily, Potley, poutily, prostyle, prtly, purply. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "portly" (pronounced pô"rtlē)
5	-ô" r t l ē	courtly, shortly.
4	-r t l ē	partly, smartly.
3	-t l ē	abruptly, absolutely, abundantly, accidently, accurately, acutely, adamantly, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, apparently, appropriately, approximately, aptly, ardently, arrogantly, astutely, blatantly, bluntly, brightly, brilliantly, coherently, commensurately, compassionately, competently, complacently, completely, concomitantly, concretely, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, correctly, costly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, efficiently, elaborately, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, exactly, excellently, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, forthrightly, fortnightly, fortunately, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imminently, impatiently, imperfectly, implicitly, importantly, imprudently, inaccurately, inadequately, inadvertently, inappropriately, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, incorrectly, indefinitely, independently, indignantly, indirectly, indiscriminately, inefficiently, ineptly, infinitely, infrequently, inherently, innately, innocently, inordinately, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intently, intermittently, intimately, intricately, jointly, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, legitimately, leniently, lightly, magnificently, manifestly, militantly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, negligently, nightly, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, passionately, patently, patiently, perfectly, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, politely, predominantly, presently, priestly, privately, prominently, promptly, proportionately, prudently, pungently, quaintly, quietly, raptly, recently, reluctantly, remotely, resolutely, reverently, rightly, robustly, saintly, secretly, separately, significantly, silently, slightly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, stridently, stringently, subsequently, succinctly, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, tightly, transparently, triumphantly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unpleasantly, unsightly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently, Whitely.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: protyl.
	Words within the letters "l-o-p-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: lory, plot, ploy, poly, port, ropy, rotl, ryot, tory, trop, troy, typo, tyro.
	-3 letters: lop, lot, opt, ort, ply, pol, pot, pro, pry, rot, top, tor, toy, try.
	-4 letters: lo, op, or, oy, to, yo.
	Words containing the letters "l-o-p-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: poultry, protyle, protyls.
	+2 letters: patronly, polarity, portably, promptly, prostyle, protyles, sportily, torpidly, trollopy.
	+3 letters: allopatry, allotropy, corruptly, expletory, operantly, pellitory, petrology, placatory, polyester, polywater, portrayal, prolixity, proselyte, prostyles, pyrolytic, triploidy.
	+4 letters: bipolarity, copulatory, cryptology, depilatory, epistolary, laparotomy, pastorally, personalty, petroglyph, pleiotropy, plutocracy, plyometric, polyesters, polyhistor, polyrhythm, polywaters, popularity, portrayals, poultryman, poultrymen, proclivity, proctology, profitably, proselyted, proselytes, prototypal, protoxylem, pyrolusite, pyrolysate, pyrolyzate, reportedly, sportfully, sportingly, sportively, suppletory, temporally, terpolymer, tropically, upholstery, voluptuary.
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