solid-looking

[sol-id-look-ing]

adjective

1. reassuringly substantial or stable in appearance.

   They're a very solid-looking, intelligent couple.

Word History and Origins

Origin of solid-looking¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Canal mud is treacherous, deceptively solid-looking on the surface but giving way to thick sludge beneath.

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But it also creates much more solid-looking virtual objects, similar to the AR images you’d find on phones and tablets.

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Rufus and George, both solid-looking, sensible mice, took their leave with a formal bow to the Abbot.

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As the shock of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death gave way to incredulity and alarm about the political situation she’d left behind, Democrats—especially Democrats in the Senate—grabbed the first solid-looking thing they could grab: the principle that it was too close to the election for President Donald Trump and the Republican Senate majority to fill her seat.

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The consulate turned out to be a solid-looking stone building.

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