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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The furniture company known for its Swedish meatballs and blocky “Kallax” shelving units has found a home inside the old Helms Bakery complex in Culver City.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
But I do like clothes that are bright and blocky, and LF Markey does great workwear, which you can get online as well as at their east London store.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
“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
To keep it from dwarfing its 19th-century neighbors, he broke up its mass into separate blocky pavilions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
The stories Eddie had jotted down in his goofy, blocky handwriting, from his own silly creations to the fables Nana used to tell us when we were younger, when she’d come up to visit.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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