Thesaurus / burly
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This burly gear will keep you safe as you venture into the dark.
GOING CAVING? BRING THESE ESSENTIALS UNDERGROUND WITH YOU.ROB VERGERDECEMBER 21, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEWhile matters of opinion—including those thrown out in the hurly-burly of a talk show segment—are typically outside the realm of defamation, courts may find at least some of the “dozens” of allegedly false claims do not qualify as opinion.
VOTING MACHINE MAKER THREATENS TO SUE FOX NEWS OVER CONSPIRACY CLAIMSJEFFDECEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNEThe new card is burly enough to enable 120 frames per second performance in VR headsets like the Valve Index for super-smooth motion during any task.
THE BEST GADGETS OF 2020BY STAN HORACZEKDECEMBER 2, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEI’d quadruple the recipe if you want to make more than just a batch, or skip the sandwiching altogether, which made for some pretty burly cookies.
THE BEST HOLIDAY COOKIE RECIPES, ACCORDING TO EATER EDITORSMEGHAN MCCARRONNOVEMBER 30, 2020EATERNot waiting around, which would make sense somewhat since Yang himself left the hurly-burly of the campaign back in February.
WILL ANDREW YANG BE THE FIRST SECRETARY OF TECHNOLOGY?EUGENE ROBINSONAUGUST 5, 2020OZYTom himself was burly, ruddy, broad, and rather above middle size.
HUNTING THE LIONSR.M. BALLANTYNEThis hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEOut of a dark porch, ten paces along Bond Street, appeared a burly figure to fall into step a few yards behind Gray.
DOPESAX ROHMERA man, burly and broad-shouldered, who had the air of a professional bully, walked by himself ahead.
THE DOUBLE FOURE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMA burly warrior scooped up coals on a piece of bark and with a fiendish grin leaped through the smoke.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERWORDS RELATED TO BURLY
- beefy
- big
- blimp
- bovine
- brawny
- broad
- bulging
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- butterball
- chunky
- corpulent
- distended
- dumpy
- elephantine
- fleshy
- gargantuan
- gross
- heavy
- heavyset
- hefty
- husky
- inflated
- jelly-belly
- lard
- large
- meaty
- obese
- oversize
- paunchy
- plump
- plumpish
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- potbellied
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- solid
- stout
- swollen
- thickset
- weighty
- well-fed
- whalelike
- beefy
- big
- blimp
- bovine
- brawny
- broad
- bulging
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- butterball
- chunky
- corpulent
- distended
- dumpy
- elephantine
- fleshy
- gargantuan
- gross
- heavy
- heavyset
- hefty
- husky
- inflated
- jelly-belly
- lard
- large
- meaty
- obese
- oversize
- paunchy
- plump
- plumpish
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- potbellied
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- solid
- stout
- swollen
- thickset
- weighty
- whalelike
- able
- able-bodied
- acclimatized
- brawny
- burly
- capable
- enduring
- firm
- fit
- fresh
- hale
- hardened
- healthy
- hearty
- hefty
- in fine fettle
- in good condition
- in good shape
- indefatigable
- inured
- lusty
- mighty
- muscular
- physically fit
- powerful
- resistant
- robust
- rugged
- seasoned
- solid
- sound
- stalwart
- staunch
- stout
- sturdy
- substantial
- tenacious
- unflagging
- vigorous
- well
- a whale of a
- ample
- awash
- brimming
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- capacious
- chock-full
- colossal
- commodious
- considerable
- copious
- crowded
- enormous
- extensive
- fat
- full
- gigantic
- good
- great
- healthy
- heavy-duty
- heavyweight
- hefty
- huge
- hulking
- humongous
- husky
- immense
- jumbo
- large
- mammoth
- massive
- mondo
- monster
- oversize
- packed
- ponderous
- prodigious
- roomy
- sizable
- spacious
- strapping
- stuffed
- substantial
- supercolossal
- thundering
- tremendous
- vast
- voluminous
- walloping
- whopper
- whopping
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.