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单词 meaty
释义

meaty

/ˈmiːti /
adjective (meatier, meatiest)
1Full of or resembling meat: a meaty flavour...
  • Then she is bustling away, a whirlwind of activity, testing a pot of meaty soup with a spoon that she pulls out of nowhere, sticking a sliver of wood into a rising cake in an open oven to check that it is cooking.
  • Nodding furiously, he furiously began to start serving the meaty soup to the peasants.
  • In this case, they were far from trendy al dente vegetables and had a rich meaty, sharp flavour, which I would happily have had as a main course.
1.1Fleshy; brawny: the tall, meaty young man...
  • I know she would have hated Marie, and that Marie was everything she wasn't, but I think that was kind of the point; French, tall, slightly meaty, and blonde, Marie is nothing like her.
  • Barnes slaps his meaty hand over the mouth of a soldier screaming from the searing pain of shrapnel and menacingly commands ‘Take the pain!’

Synonyms

beefy, fleshy, brawny, burly, muscular, muscly, powerful, sturdy, rugged, husky, strapping, well built, solidly built, stout, thickset
1.2Full of substance or interest: Lawrence has written a meaty, scholarly book...
  • To attract a cast like that, Mystic River had to offer some meaty roles.
  • It also offers Woronov her first meaty film role since Bartel's Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills 13 years ago.
  • But it lacks the meaty substance of its predecessors, and feels too fluffy, light, and simplistic to truly work.

Synonyms

full of interest, interesting, three-dimensional, stimulating, giving food for thought;
substantial, pithy, satisfying, meaningful, profound, deep, involved, significant

Derivatives

meatily

adverb ...
  • He trotted on to the ball and drove meatily and accurately into the top left-hand corner of the net.
  • To be fair to him, the cross was fired in meatily by Lee Bullen and he did well just to get his head to it.

meatiness

noun ...
  • His timing is perfect - there's enough policy meatiness to save the speech from vacuousness, but it's folksy, funny.
  • But there is also a meatiness, a tenacity of grip, and, finally, a grandeur, which this production captures.
  • Yet despite the meatiness of this main character, the pristine production and more than a smattering of smut, the show failed to engage.

Rhymes

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