chunky
/ˈtʃʌŋki
/adjective (chunkier, chunkiest)
1Bulky and thick: a chunky bracelet...
- The bracelet was chunky, a silver concoction of thick ropes linked together.
- I would like a plain, chunky, black plastic bracelet to wear this autumn.
- Forget the gold charm bracelet and chunky gold necklaces, big does not have to be brash!
Synonyms
thick, bulky, heavy-knit, cable-knit
1.1(Of a person) short and sturdy: a squat, chunky man whose face was stitched by tiny red veins...
- The guardsman - a shorter, chunky fellow - rose with ill grace and stumped over to the water pump.
- She saw a short, chunky girl standing at the edge of Andy's yard.
- He was a short, square, chunky man, with a round face, not handsome, but compact with energy.
Synonyms
stocky, sturdy, thickset, sturdily built, heavily built, well built, burly, bulky, brawny, solid, bull-necked, heavy, hefty, beefy, meaty;
short, dumpy, squat, stubby;
cobby;
Australian/New Zealand nuggety
British informal fubsy
technical mesomorphic, pyknic
2(Of food) containing chunks or thick pieces of something: a chunky soup...
- The salsa is different every single time, from scrambled tomato soup to super-spicy chunky tomato marmalade.
- I love chunky seafood soup, which was also on offer for €5.50, but in the end, I chose Nimmo's warm salad with port dressing for €9.80.
- The main course has delights such as chicken puttanesca - chicken dices cooked with bacon, olive, tomato, and bell pepper in a chunky tomato sauce, served with steamed rice.
Derivatives
chunkily
/ adverb ...- The starters were poor, though, a thinnish seafood broth with chunks of tinned tomato expiring at the bottom and a ham hough terrine that, while chunkily rustic, contained too much gristle for comfort.
- She is chunkily put together - the great thing about female soloists is that you can see their arms when they play - and this was a muscular performance.
- Miranda was five foot ten and chunkily built; not fat, but not exactly light either.
chunkiness
- It's hard to get over the sheer weight, chunkiness and lack of flexibility of these shoes.
- Judging by the increased chunkiness of his jaw, I think he's getting fatter.
- The chopped (not puréed) ingredients will give the salsa its chunkiness.
Rhymes
- immunochemist
- immunochemistry
- immunocompetence
- immunocompetent
- immunocompromised
- immunocyte
- immunocytochemical
- immunocytochemically
- immunocytochemistry
- immunodeficiency
- immunodeficient
- immunodepressant
- immunodepressed
- immunodepression
- immunodepressive
- immunodiagnostic
- immunodiagnostics
- immunodiffusion
- immunoelectrophoresis
- immunoelectrophoretic
- immunoelectrophoretically
- immunofluorescence
- immunofluorescent
- immunogen
- immunogenesis