thickset

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
thickset
    adj 1: having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of
           compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky
           legs"; "a thickset young man" [syn: {compact},
           {heavyset}, {stocky}, {thick}, {thickset}]
    2: planted or growing close together; "thickset trees"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Thickset \Thick"set`\, a.
   1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
      --Dryden.
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   2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Thickset \Thick"set`\, n.
   1. A close or thick hedge.
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   2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or
      velveteen. --McElrath.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "thickset":
      able-bodied, adipose, athletic, beefy, big-bellied, bloated,
      blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, broad-bodied, broad-shouldered,
      bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, close, close-knit,
      close-textured, close-woven, coarse, compact, compacted,
      compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested,
      consolidated, corpulent, crammed, crammed full, crass, crowded,
      dense, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, firm, fleshy, full,
      full-bodied, gluey, gross, hard, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy,
      impenetrable, impermeable, imposing, jam-packed, jammed, lusty,
      massive, meaty, muscle-bound, muscular, nonporous, obese,
      overweight, packed, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied,
      pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund,
      serried, sinewy, snub-nosed, solid, square, squat, squattish,
      squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby,
      stumpy, substantial, swollen, thewy, thick, thick-bodied,
      thick-growing, three-dimensional, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up,
      viscid, viscose, viscous, well-built, well-fed, well-knit,
      well-set, well-set-up, wiry

    

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