boxy

[bok-see]

adjective

boxier, boxiest 

1. like or resembling a box, especially in shape.

   a boxy little house.

boxy

/ ˈbɒksɪ /

adjective

1. squarish or chunky in style or appearance

   a boxy square-cut jacket

Other Word Forms

• boxiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of boxy¹

First recorded in 1860–65; box ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

A worker in white gloves inspects the propellers of a boxy two-seater aircraft fresh off the assembly line at a Chinese factory trialling the mass production of flying cars.

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By using components to create small, boxy workstations, companies found they could pack more employees into tighter spaces.

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It’s surrounded by modern apartment buildings, boxy and inoffensive, built to blend in with today’s taste.

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Both Buckingham Palace and Ashton Place were fine examples of the neoclassical style of architecture, which is to say they were boxy and rather plain, in a symmetrical, fluted-column sort of way.

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He looked healthy but thin, swimming in the boxy suit they’d given him.

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Related Words

• rectangular