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stubby

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of stubby

being compact and broad in build and often short in stature

Seven stubby little fellows carried the sleeping Snow White back to their home in a cave.

Synonyms of stubby

chunky, dumpy, heavyset, squat, squatty, stocky, stout, stumpy, thickset

Words Related to stubby

beefy, brawny, bulky, burly, husky, sturdy, thick, thickish, weighty

chubby, heavy, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

Near Antonyms of stubby

delicate, fragile, frail, puny

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy

scraggy, scrawny, slight

spindly, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy, wiry

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