blockish
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8.6
- adjective
- /ˈblɒkɪʃ/
:
cuadrado
- The frayed plastic webbing of my father's green lounge chair tickled my legs, which were only half-shaped—curved here, blockish there.
Examples
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From the aircar, a glowing line speared toward the earth, then settled on the blockish image of a human.
Fiction book (1999) -
He was beefy, though not fat, and his head was large and rather blockish.
Fiction book (1994) -
On her blockish shoulders, her small, rucked-up head seemed stuck like something vestigial.
Fiction book (1990) -
His new apartment featured a blockish design with square furniture and sharp lines.
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The building had a blockish structure, making it stand out among the more curved designs.
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The sculpture was blockish in form, resembling a series of stacked cubes.
Synonyms
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4.0
Having a thick, square or rectangular shape with straight edges
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3.1
A thing that is shaped like a brick with flat rectangular sides
Shaped like a solid box with straight edges
Shaped like a brick and often hard or dense
Antonyms
How Blocky
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blockish comes from the common word block and the ending -ish, which means 'like'. Think of toy blocks or a heavy square stone to picture a simple, boxy shape, and that is why blockish means 'resembling a block'.