Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Strongly knit, especially strongly and firmly constructed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Firmly compacted; strongly framed or fixed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Firmly
constructed and heldtogether
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective strongly and firmly constructed
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word well-knit.
Examples
-
His was a tall, slender, well-knit figure, and Grief, studying him, estimated his character from his face.
-
He was at the wheel, a small, well-knit, muscular man of say forty-five, with black hair graying on the temples, a big eagle-face, swarthy, with keen, intelligent black eyes.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
-
At first she found fault with the more than slight cheek-hollows under the cheek-bones, but when she measured his well-knit, slenderly muscular figure, with its deep chest and heavy shoulders, she discovered that she preferred the hollows; at least they did not imply lack of nutrition.
CHAPTER 4 2010
-
This conference was convened to develop a well-knit organization that would be able to coordinate and expand WPA services across Europe.
-
Their top spark was a rangy, well-knit Ulsterman with sandy whiskers and a soft-spoken honeycomb voice; his name, he informed me, was Grattan Nugent-Hare, "with the hyphen, sir which is a bit of a pose, don't ye know, but I'm attached to it."
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
-
His well-knit body was, except for matching shoes and the ubiquitous silken sporran, otherwise uncovered.
-
They were a well-knit organization within an organization and were made up of practical, hardheaded men who were working toward improvement of conditions throughout the Ship, as they saw them.
-
This highly intelligent utilitarian breed is distinguished by two coat types, either curly or wavy; an impressive head of considerable breadth and well proportioned mass; a ruggedly built, well-knit body; and a powerful, thickly based tail, carried gallantly or used purposefully as a rudder.
-
He looked to people he had known for a long time, friends who would work with him and with each otherwho together would constitute a well-knit team.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
-
He looked to people he had known for a long time, friends who would work with him and with each otherwho together would constitute a well-knit team.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.