thickset
/ˈθɪkˌsɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.59 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a relatively short, heavy build.
adj
Densely crowded together; made up of things that are densely crowded together; closely planted.
Example Sentences
- "a thickset, muscular figure"
- "a thickset workhorse"
- "He was a thick set man, and of a strong Constitution […]"
- "[…] he directed me to a small chink in the board partition, through which I could see a thick set brawny fellow, with a fierce countenance,"
- "Ralph, who was a thickset clownish figure, arrived at his full strength, and conscious of the most complete personal superiority, laughed contemptuously at the threats of the slight-made stripling."
- "The contrast was as striking as it could have been eighteen years before, when Rigg was a most unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-parlors."