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synonyms for stubby

  • fat
  • heavyset
  • squat
  • stocky
  • stout
  • stumpy
  • thick-bodied
  • thickset
On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stubby, such as: fat, heavyset, squat, stocky, stout, and stumpy.

antonyms for stubby

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  • lanky
  • long
  • thin
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How to use stubby in a sentence

At Monterey Car Week in August, the team showed off the skysphere, which morphs from stubby sports car to autonomous cruiser, extending its wheelbase as the driver's controls fold out of sight.
AUDI SUBVERTS THE LUXURY SEDAN WITH NEW GRANDSPHERE CONCEPTJONATHAN M. GITLINSEPTEMBER 2, 2021ARS TECHNICA
Images showed short, stubby cilia on the surface of the infected cells rather than the long projections found on healthy cells.
THE CORONAVIRUS CUTS CELLS’ HAIRLIKE CILIA, WHICH MAY HELP IT INVADE THE LUNGSERIN GARCIA DE JESÚSJULY 22, 2021SCIENCE NEWS
The stubby sausages, meanwhile, are straight off an English breakfast table.
SWAHILI VILLAGE BRINGS A TASTE OF AFRICAN FINE DINING TO D.C.TOM SIETSEMAAPRIL 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Computers kept the SN8 level by flapping stubby fins attached to its base and nosecone.
SPACEX’S STARSHIP FLIES, BELLY FLOPS, AND BURSTS INTO FLAMESCHARLIE WOODDECEMBER 10, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
More specifically, the dash-mount arm is so stubby that it can’t jiggle around.
THE BEST PHONE MOUNT FOR YOUR CAR COSTS $12JAKOB SCHILLERSEPTEMBER 20, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
He could take care of him when he got inside, got to that stubby .38 he had slipped into the glove compartment just in case.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUS
The suns and winds of many seas had burned and scored his face, and a stubby mustache gave him a belligerent aspect.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSON
Then there was a sling-shot, ferociously stubby, and rather confusingly boyish.
MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVEELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
Mr. Van Britt blew his cheeks out until the stubby, cropped mustache bristled like porcupine quills.
THE WRECKERSFRANCIS LYNDE
Tenors are generally short, stubby men with brief necks, while baritones are for the most part tall, spare and long-necked.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 147, AUGUST 12, 1914VARIOUS
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WORDS RELATED TO STUBBY

  • blockish
  • boxlike
  • boxy
  • chunky
  • compact
  • heavyset
  • solid
  • squat
  • stubby
  • stumpy
  • thick
  • thickset
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.