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
She painted colorful, flat, blocky, nearly abstract shapes, but often with a distortion or a twist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Even the logo jumps out like a birthday cake topper, with the number “70” alternately blocky and rounded as if constructed out of frosting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
The game’s blocky bizarro aesthetic has given it global recognition; its free-range exploration on a terrain the size of Neptune has earned it over $3 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
The hunter’s blocky hand clamped onto the clifftop and then—thwip—it detached.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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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