[
UK
/θˈɪksɛt/
]
ADJECTIVE
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planted or growing close together
thickset trees -
having a short and solid form or stature
stocky legs
a thickset young man
he was tall and heavyset
a wrestler of compact build
How To Use thickset In A Sentence
- One afternoon a short, thickset visitor, bearded and dressed à la mode, presented himself backstage.
- He could as well be telephoning his thickset, mafioso friend. LAST SHOT
- The first was the presence of a thickset, blue-uniformed administrator behind a large, blackwood desk. Addicts
- It is thickset, with a large mouth, thick white lips and a large blunt head, hence the nickname Loggerhead.
- He pointed out a kind of thickset tower which crowned a pretty village set in orchards. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
- He was no longer the slender boy who had enlisted nine years earlier but a thickset man, with shaggy hair and an untamed beard. For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War
- He could as well be telephoning his thickset, mafioso friend. LAST SHOT
- Before we could walk to the door, a thickset man opened it.
- The commander was a thickset man with hooded eyelids and a greasy charm.
- He watched her go, heavy and thickset, plodding toward the number 3 with her bulging carrier bags. Red Wolf
