Definition for Protuberance:

• A part jutting out from the body.

Synonyms for Protuberance:

• n.

  •
  • flap,
  • snout,
  • point,
  • ridge,
  • arm,
  • limb.
  •
  • knot,
  • convex,
  • overhang.
  •bulb (noun)
  • corn,
  • Corns,
  • CORMS,
  • corm,
  • globe.
  •bulge (noun)
  • convexity,
  • salients,
  • protrusion,
  • salience,
  • Tuberosities,
  • gibbosity,
  • bagginess,
  • nodulation,
  • tuberosity,
  • outthrust,
  • gibbosities,
  • Convexities,
  • intumescence,
  • tumefaction.
  •bump (noun)
  • study at projection.
  •excrescence (noun)
  • excrescence.
  •extrusion (noun)
  • extrusion.
  •fatness (noun)
  • fatness,
  • rotundity,
  • pudginess,
  • stoutness,
  • fleshiness,
  • bulkiness,
  • adiposity,
  • Portliness,
  • heaviness,
  • girth,
  • plumpness,
  • flab,
  • rotundities,
  • tumidity,
  • distension,
  • distensions.
  •gibbousness (noun)
  • gibbousness.
  •hill (noun)
  • in cline,
  • rising grounds,
  • in-cline,
  • in-clines,
  • eskers,
  • in clines.
  •hump (noun)
  • convexednesses,
  • tumescences,
  • kyphosises.
  •outgrowth (noun)
  • out growths,
  • pro-cess,
  • out-crop,
  • out growth,
  • out-growths,
  • out-growth,
  • out-crops,
  • out crop,
  • pro-cesses,
  • out crops,
  • pro cess.
  •projection (noun)
  • ex-tension,
  • ex tension,
  • ex-tensions.
  •prominence (noun)
  • conspicuousnesses,
  • conspicuities,
  • markednesses.
  •protuberance (noun)
  • bump,
  • jut.
  •state (noun)
  • protuberance.
  •swelling (noun)
  • in-jury,
  • in creases,
  • puffinesses,
  • in-creases,
  • in crease,
  • in juries,
  • in jury,
  • in-crease.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tailpiece.
  •
  • tip.
  •
  • tail.
  •
  • tab.
  •hump
  • hunch.

Antonyms for Protuberance:

• n.

  • lump, outgrowth
    ingrowth, depression, sinkage.
  • Other antonyms:
    trough, well, hollow, basin, trench, dimple, bowl, pit, notch, indent, gouge, groove, furrow, valley, dip, crater, impression, concave, pocket, recess.

Protuberance Sentence Examples:

• Satisfied apparently with the size and the firmness of that pugilistic protuberance, he gently sighed forth, " I fear I shall have to lick Thomas Bowles."

• The only protuberance on the thing was a band near the rounded end.

Hyponym for Protuberance:

• n.

  • state
    condition, status.