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with Anu GargcorpulentPRONUNCIATION:
(KOR-pyuh-luhnt)
MEANING:
adjective:
Large, bulky, fat.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin corpus (body). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwrep-
(body, form) that is also the source of corps, corpse, corporation,
corset, corsage, and leprechaun.
USAGE:
"Mr. Barbecue-Smith was a short and corpulent man, with a very large head
and no neck."Aldous Huxley; Crome Yellow; 1921. See more usage examples of corpulent in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
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