Word Meanings - BURLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter

Additional info about word: BURLY

1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper. 2. Coarse and rough; boisterous. It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BURLY)

• Bulky
• Huge
• unwieldy
• heavy
• large
• ample
• ponderous
• burly
• cumbrous
• gigantic
• brawny
• massive
• Corpulent
• Stout
• fat
• portly
• gross
• lusty
• plethoric
• fleshy
• Lusty
• Robust
• vigorous
• strong
• stout
• able-bodied
• muscular
• healthy
• corpulent
• Portly
• Dignified
• imposing
• stately
• plump

Related words: (words related to BURLY)

• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• PLUMPNESS
  The quality or state of being plump.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• AMPLENESS
  The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• ABLE-BODIED
  Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. "Able-bodied vagrant." Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n..
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• PONDEROUSLY
  In a ponderous manner.
• VIGOROUS
  1. Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant. Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong. Waller. 2. Exhibiting strength, either
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• PLETHORICAL
  Plethoric. -- Ple*thor"ic*al*ly, adv. Burke.
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• CORPULENT
  1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. Holland. Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout.
• GIGANTIC
  1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant. 2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox.
• DIGNIFIED
  Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• NERVOMUSCULAR
  Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.