Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a solid, stocky form or body; stout.
- adjective Positioned or placed closely together.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Set, growing, or occurring closely together; dense; luxuriant.
- Thickly studded; abounding; plentifully supplied.
- Heavily or solidly built; stout; especially, short and stout.
- noun A close or thick hedge.
- noun Very thick or dense underwood; bush; scrub.
- noun A kind of fustian having a nap like that of velveteen. It is used for clothes by persons engaged in manual work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A close or thick hedge.
- noun A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.
- adjective Close planted.
- adjective Having a short, thick body; stout.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
short ,heavy build ;stout - noun A
thick hedge . - noun A stout,
twilled cotton cloth ; afustian corduroy , orvelveteen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a short and solid form or stature
- adjective planted or growing close together
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Examples
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He pointed out a kind of thickset tower which crowned a pretty village set in orchards.
Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905
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The simplified heads and thickset, burgeoning bodies of the women reflect his enthusiasm for ancient Iberian sculptures, seen in Spain.
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Their vocalist, Ali Tabatabaee, went for a layup, and Printz, who is a thickset guy with dreds, came underneath and swatted his shot, hard.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Their vocalist, Ali Tabatabaee, went for a layup, and Printz, who is a thickset guy with dreds, came underneath and swatted his shot, hard.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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"Bwowff!" soothes her thickset confidante, jowls swinging approvingly at her choice of metaphor.
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Their vocalist, Ali Tabatabaee, went for a layup, and Printz, who is a thickset guy with dreds, came underneath and swatted his shot, hard.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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He was no longer the slender boy who had enlisted nine years earlier but a thickset man, with shaggy hair and an untamed beard.
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It was getting dark, but the sunset was as slow and gradual as dawn had been, and she watched Karina Björnlund stand and freeze at the bus stop, a thickset, dark woman in a fur and no hat.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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He watched her go, heavy and thickset, plodding toward the number 3 with her bulging carrier bags.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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But the bus stopped a few meters away from her anyway, the back door opened and a thickset man stepped onto the street, moving slowly, heavily.
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