as in paunchy
Related Words
Relevance
Dissimilar Words
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hippy
Adjective
-
In Arthur Penn’s 1975 neo-noir Night Moves, Griffith is Delly Grastner, a 16-year-old runaway with a little girl’s voice and a grown woman’s body—on full display in an underwater nude scene—intent on seducing Gene Hackman, 43 and paunchy.
-
There isn’t much room in this palette for public pools or paunchy, suburban retirees.
Adjective
-
An inquisition of potbellied priests stood at the side of the road.
-
Early on, Don Cheadle has a droll cameo as a potbellied motivational speaker with long dreds who’s really a pyramid-scam hustler, and the point is: This is what the money culture has come to — scams for suckers.
Adjective
-
And this is in a nice, pretty on-campus facility, not the old, dumpy Astrodome (although the Astrodome is still up, which is another story).
-
Sunday brings the end of another dumpy Miami Dolphins season, but not to the problems needing solutions or the organizational mess that demands more than a offseason cleanup on Aisle 5.
Adjective
-
Earlier suitors were sometimes flabby; the crew was not always in tip-top shape.
-
Without constant reinforcement, these muscles will atrophy, and when real tyranny arrives, the flabby citizen will be powerless to resist.
Adjective
-
It was modeled after canal packet boats of yore, which were squat and flat-roofed to fit beneath the low railroad bridges that crossed the canal.
-
An example might be holding a squat position and then doing sets of small pulses.
Adjective
-
The player uses a stubby wooden bat shaped like a small frying pan to try to scoop it back, but the geometry defeats her.
-
This one has stubby legs to make your ceilings appear even taller, along with plenty of space to keep your records pristine and hide the tangle of cords when company’s over.
Adjective
-
This need not be a burly bully who sizes up wardrobes and coiffures to decide who would best decorate your party.
-
The burly bureaucrat in dark slacks and a navy sweater has a scruffy beard and the frazzled look of an anonymous factotum thrust into the limelight.
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Hippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hippy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
