Thickset

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thickset
       adj 1: heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact
              build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a
              thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: {compact},
               {heavyset}, {stocky}, {thick}]
       2: planted or growing close together; "thickset trees"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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