thickset

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: thick=set

CIDE DICTIONARY

thickset, a. 

•  Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having a short, thick body; stout.  [1913 Webster]

thickset, n. 

•  A close or thick hedge.  [1913 Webster]
•  A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.  McElrath.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

thickset, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 heavily or solidly built.
2 set or growing close together.
--n. a thicket.

THESAURUS

thickset

able-bodied, adipose, athletic, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, broad-bodied, broad-shouldered, bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, coarse, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, corpulent, crammed, crammed full, crass, crowded, dense, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, firm, fleshy, full, full-bodied, gluey, gross, hard, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, impenetrable, impermeable, imposing, jam-packed, jammed, lusty, massive, meaty, muscle-bound, muscular, nonporous, obese, overweight, packed, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, serried, sinewy, snub-nosed, solid, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, substantial, swollen, thewy, thick, thick-bodied, thick-growing, three-dimensional, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, viscid, viscose, viscous, well-built, well-fed, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up, wiry

ROGET THESAURUS

thickset

Shortness

N shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer, short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, shortly, in short.

Thickness,

N breadth, thickness, breadth, width, latitude, amplitude, diameter, bore, caliber, radius, superficial extent, thickness, crassitude, corpulence, dilation, broad, wide, ample, extended, discous, fanlike, outspread, outstretched, wide as a church-door, latifoliate, latifolous, thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset, thick as a rope.

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.