Word Study
thickset
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.
--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, wiryROGET 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.For further exploring for "thickset" in Webster Dictionary Online