stumpy
/ˈstʌmpi
/adjective (stumpier, stumpiest)
Short and thick; squat: weak stumpy legs...
- The tall officer told the short stumpy man to take her son, Jared, somewhere else as he took care of her, himself.
- Vines with yawning purple flowers clung to the walls, and thick, stumpy trees guarded the back of the house.
- Two figures were silhouetted in the entrance, one short and stumpy, the other tall and lithe.
Synonyms
short, stubby, squat, stunted;
stocky, sturdy, chunky, heavily built, heavyset, solid, thickset, bull-necked
informal beefy
British informal fubsy
Derivatives
stumpily
- The characters themselves are stumpily deformed creatures, which would be fine if they managed to remain in scale.
- Livvy nodded and crouched down as the little toddler ran stumpily towards her.
- The exterior is not its best feature - squat and massive, the cathedral crouches stumpily over the tidy lawns of the Cathedral Close.
stumpiness
- The stumpiness of some of the other plants leads me to believe that there is some serious soil issue in parts of the ground in that strip.
- A low-cut shoe is enticing and supposedly flattering to the shorter-legged among us, while ankle straps and other lines across the foot cut off the leg and accentuate stumpiness.