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View definitions for thick-bodied

thick-bodied

adjective as in chunky

adjective as in pudgy

adjective as in roly-poly

adjective as in squat

adjective as in stout

adjective as in stubby

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Example Sentences

The perfect insects are thick-bodied, and of dull colors; they fly at night.

The inner door opened to admit a burly, thick-bodied man with reddish hair sprinkled with gray and grizzled, bushy eyebrows.

Who in hell, he wondered, would be sending this sort of gift to his slatternly thick-bodied secretary.

He appeared next moving, with the stumpy, ungraceful stride peculiar to the short and thick-bodied, down the walk to a float.

These pigs are short-legged and thick-bodied—a profitable species.

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On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to thick-bodied, such as: chubby, stocky, stout, beefy, dumpy, and heavyset.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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