thickset


Also found in: Thesaurus.

thick·set

 (thĭk′sĕt′)
adj.
1. Having a solid, stocky form or body; stout.
2. Positioned or placed closely together.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

thickset

(ˌθɪkˈsɛt)
adj
1. stocky in build; sturdy
2. densely planted or placed
n
(Botany) a rare word for thicket
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

thick•set

(adj. ˈθɪkˈsɛt; n. -ˌsɛt)

adj.
1. heavily or solidly built; stocky: a thickset wrestler.
2. set in close arrangement; dense: a thickset hedge.
n.
3. a thicket.
[1325–75]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.thickset - having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"
short, little - low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
2.thickset - planted or growing close together; "thickset trees"
concentrated - gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

thickset

adjective stocky, sturdy, burly, strong, heavy, muscular, bulky, beefy (informal), well-built, stubby, brawny, powerfully built his stout, thickset figure
stocky gaunt, bony, lanky, angular, weedy (informal), scrawny, gangling, scraggy, rawboned
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

thickset

adjective
Short, heavy, and solidly built:
The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations

thickset

[ˌθɪkˈset] ADJ [person] → robusto, fornido; [features] → grueso, gordo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

thickset

[ˌθɪkˈsɛt] adj [person] → trapu(e)thick-skinned thickskinned [ˌθɪkˈskɪnd] adj [person] → insensible
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

thickset

[ˌθɪkˈsɛt] adj (person) → tarchiato/a, tozzo/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
Monsieur Faucheux's horses were serviceable animals, with thickset knees, and legs that had some difficulty in moving.
The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.
"Anglais ou Francais, monsieur?" demanded a thickset, moon-faced young Flamand in a blouse.
I did so, and was confronted by a short, thickset man, who recognized me with a smile, but whom I failed to recognize.
There was a man with a huge belly and a jovial face, noisily kissing a woman of the town, thickset and brawny.
A sunburnt, quick, lithe, little man, though rather thickset. Earrings in his brown ears, white teeth lighting up his grotesque brown face, intensely black hair clustering about his brown throat, a ragged red shirt open at his brown breast.
Madame Baudoyer, whose only daughter was treading--to use an expression of old Saillard's--on the tail of her twelve years, laid claim to Falleix, a thickset, swarthy, active young fellow, of shrewd principles, whose education she was superintending.
More thickset than our native terns, Gull-billed Terns nest in the Mediterranean.
Thickset security guards prowl the corridors of his offices with walkie talkies strapped to their hips.
The thickset build, the local accent, the all black clothing and a black rolled up "dut" that could easily have been a balaclava, all tied in.
It has no dorsal fin; instead, its thickset back arches into a graceless hump.