stockier; stockiest
: compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build
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Examples of stocky in a Sentence
That outfit makes you look stocky.
the stocky boxer's strength and speed more than make up for his opponent's longer reach
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Addax are antelopes that are stocky, short and have slender legs, states the Smithsonian.
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Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
Every week, Nepali, a strong and stocky forty-one-year-old, hitches animal carcasses to a truck and drags them into a clearing near Chitwan National Park, in the lowlands of Nepal.
—Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
Dodd voiced Wolverine, a stocky Canadian with adamantium claws; Sealy-Smith was Storm, a regal African woman who could control the weather; and Zann played Rogue, a Southern belle with a power-absorbing touch.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
Cooper concluded that a megalodon would have been a stocky, powerful shark—measuring some 52 feet (16 meters) in length with a body mass of 67.86 tons—able to execute bursts of high speed to attack prey, much like the significantly smaller great white shark.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
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Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
Every week, Nepali, a strong and stocky forty-one-year-old, hitches animal carcasses to a truck and drags them into a clearing near Chitwan National Park, in the lowlands of Nepal.
—Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
Dodd voiced Wolverine, a stocky Canadian with adamantium claws; Sealy-Smith was Storm, a regal African woman who could control the weather; and Zann played Rogue, a Southern belle with a power-absorbing touch.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
Cooper concluded that a megalodon would have been a stocky, powerful shark—measuring some 52 feet (16 meters) in length with a body mass of 67.86 tons—able to execute bursts of high speed to attack prey, much like the significantly smaller great white shark.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
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“Stocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stocky. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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