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stumpy
CIDE DICTIONARY
stumpy, a.
- Full of stumps; hard; strong. [1913 Webster]
- Short and thick; stubby. J. C. Harris. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stumpy, adj. (stumpier, stumpiest) short and thick.
Derivative
stumpily adv. stumpiness n.
THESAURUS
stumpy
bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, blocky, bowlegged, cash, chubby, chunky, club-footed, couchant, crouched, debased, defaced, deformed, depressed, disfigured, dumpy, dwarfed, fat, flat, flatfooted, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, knee-high, knock-kneed, knocked flat, laid low, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, neap, out of shape, pigeon-toed, podgy, prone, pudgy, pug, pug-nosed, pugged, rachitic, recumbent, retrousse, rhino, rickety, rocks, runty, scratch, shekels, short, simous, smash, snub-nosed, squat, squattish, squatty, stocky, stooped, stubbed, stubby, stuff, sugar, supine, swaybacked, talipedic, thick-bodied, thickset, truncated, tubby, turned-up, unelevated, wampumROGET THESAURUS
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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.Distortion
N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed, bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions, stumpy, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.For further exploring for "stumpy" in Webster Dictionary Online