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Adjective(1) having a short and solid form or stature(2) heavy and compact in form or stature(3) short and overweight; short and muscular

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(1) He said a stocky man, aged about 30, approached one of the girls as she stood on the bank of the brook while her friend was on the swing.(2) The one who fired the airgun was around 5ft 10 in, of medium to stocky build with blond hair.(3) But nothing had been recorded about the young man described as quite thick-set and stocky for his age.(4) The suspect is thought to be white, aged between 30 and 40 years old, with a stocky build and black hair.(5) Not the squat, stocky Napoleon we recognise today, but a young, handsome neo-classical hero.(6) The next edition of the paper described the assailant as five ten, two hundred pounds, heavy set, stocky .(7) He always had a bit of an inferiority complex because he's smaller, but he was very broad and stocky .(8) He sat up, revealing broad, stocky shoulders and thickset arms to go along with him.(9) One had long unkempt hair and badly rotting teeth; the other was short, stocky and dressed in a clean tracksuit.(10) Not far from me a stocky , no-nonsense, suntanned man was watching with an unamused face.(11) He's a stocky cat, a chunky cat, but he's no larger than your average size country cat.(12) Then a stocky built lad appeared and started doing triple summersaults and all manner of spectacular dives.(13) She gave a description of the robber which described him as being broad shouldered and stocky , which the appellant was not.(14) The man caught on CCTV footage is described as of fairly stocky build, wearing a hooded top under a dark overcoat.(15) He was described as being in his early 30s of stocky build with a shaven head.(16) He said he was stocky , not too tall, very broad shouldered and middle-aged.
Synonyms
Adjective
1. thickset
2. sturdy
3. heavily built
4. chunky
5. burly
6. strapping
7. brawny
8. solid
9. heavy
10. heavyset
11. hefty
12. beefy
13. blocky


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