protuberant

Etymology Latin protuberans, protuberantis, present participle of protuberare. See protuberate.

Synonyms

bulging, exserted, extuberant, jutting, obtrusive, outstanding, projecting, projectory, prominent, promontorial, protruding, protuberant, protuberous, salient

Antonyms

concave, improminent, incurved, inflected, intruse, nonprojecting, nonprominent, unprotruding

Derived terms

protuberancy

Related terms

protuberance, protuberantly, conspicuous

Hyponyms

cantilevered, convex, gibbous, hornlike, mastoid, peaky, prolateral, swollen, hyperobtrusive, semiobtrusive, ultra-prominent, mammilliform, mammilloid, papillose, papulous, abdominous, potbellied