burly
adjective
1 burly
Muscular and heavily built:
— Had a tall burly frame.
synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping.
Roget 192:
large,
big;
great
etc.
(in quantity)
31;
considerable,
bulky,
voluminous,
ample,
massive,
massy;
capacious,
comprehensive;
spacious
etc.
180;
mighty,
towering,
fine,
magnificent.
corpulent,
stout,
fat,
obese,
plump,
squab,
full,
lusty,
strapping,
bouncing;
portly,
burly,
well-fed,
full-grown;
corn fed,
gram fed;
stalwart,
brawny,
fleshy;
goodly;
in good case,
in good condition;
in condition;
chopping,
jolly;
chub faced,
chubby faced.
lubberly,
hulky,
unwieldy,
lumpish,
gaunt,
spanking,
whacking,
whopping,
walloping,
thumping,
thundering,
hulking;
overgrown;
puffy
etc.
(swollen)
194.
huge,
immense,
enormous,
mighty;
vast,
vasty;
amplitudinous,
stupendous;
monster,
monstrous,
humongous,
monumental;
elephantine,
jumbo,
mammoth;
gigantic,
gigantean,
giant,
giant like,
titanic;
prodigious,
colossal,
Cyclopean,
Brobdingnagian,
Bunyanesque,
Herculean,
Gargantuan;
infinite
etc.
105.
large as life;
plump as a dumpling,
plump as a partridge;
fat as a pig,
fat as a quail,
fat as butter,
fat as brawn,
fat as bacon.
immeasurable,
unfathomable,
unplumbed;
inconceivable,
unimaginable,
unheard-of.
of cosmic proportions;
of epic proportions,
the mother of all,
teh granddaddy of all.
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Moby thesaurus: able-bodied, adipose, athletic, beefy, big, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, broad-shouldered, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, husky, imposing, large, lusty, meaty, muscle-bound, muscular, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, rugged, sinewy, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, swollen, thewy, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tough, tubby, well-built, well-fed, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up, wiry ... show more.
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