STOCKIEST

STOCKY

compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset

(adjective) having a short and solid form or stature; “a wrestler of compact build”; “he was tall and heavyset”; “stocky legs”; “a thickset young man”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

stockiest

superlative form of stocky: most stocky

Source: Wiktionary


STOCKY

Stock"y, a. Etym: [From Stock.]

1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] G. Eliot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

13 November 2024

OSTENSIBLE

(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so; “for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent”; “the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies”; “the ostensible truth of their theories”; “his seeming honesty”


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