blocky
Americanadjective
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heavily built; solid; stocky.
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marked by blocks or patches of unequally distributed light and shade, as in a photograph.
adjective
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One day in December, a handful of geologists trekked about the site carrying a gravimeter, a blocky instrument that weighs about 25 pounds and is used for surveys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
His colors are as intense as Münter’s, but his forms are freer, less blocky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
“Eternity,” set in a way station resembling a blocky airport Radisson at capacity, may never become pantheon material.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
In press notes circulated ahead of the film's release, Black, 55, acknowledged there was a lot of pressure to deliver for fans of the blocky world.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
It was a brown hand, all blocky from being made out of Lego bricks.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
The tweaking was in the details: the altered check, the blockier logo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
These authors also suggested that C. megalodon had a deeper, blockier skull than the Great white shark Carcharodon carcharias.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2013
Sadly, what we can probably expect, is another Skyline or Battlefield Los Angeles, just with blockier aliens, who slowly advance towards Earth in a predictable rectangular formation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2011
They were all a little blockier than the human parts they were meant to correspond to, but they were recognizable.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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