Definition of Stubbiness

1. Noun. The property of being short and broad.

Exact synonyms: Squatness
Generic synonyms: Lowness
Derivative terms: Squat, Squat, Stubby

Definition of Stubbiness

1. n. The state of being stubby.

Definition of Stubbiness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being stubby. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stubbiness

strychnic
strychnine
strychnines
stryphnic acid
stryve
stub
stub nail
stub out
stubbed
stubbedness
stubbie
stubbier
stubbies
stubbiest
stubbily
stubbiness (current term)
stubbing
stubble
stubble rash
stubbled
stubbleless
stubbles
stubblier
stubbliest
stubbly
stubborn
stubborn as a mule
stubborner
stubbornest
stubbornly

Literary usage of Stubbiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the by Theodore Low De Vinne (1900)
"Its most noticeable features are an upward slope of the cross-bar in the 6, greater' thickness of the stems, avoidance of hairlines, stubbiness of serifs, ..."

2. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the by Theodore Low De Vinne (1899)
"Its most noticeable features are an upward slope of the cross-bar in the C, greater thickness of the stems, avoidance of hairlines, stubbiness of serifs, ..."

3. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1840)
"all the health and stubbiness they generally do in March or April. Let the practical man mark this. ..."

4. The Triumph of the N. C.'s by George Conrad Westervelt, Holden Chester Richardson, Albert Cushing Read (1920)
"The stubbiness of the bow also permitted this hull to sink deeply into the water, which aggravated the difficulty. The hull was later re-designed, ..."

5. Health, Public and Personal by Ralph Earl Blount (1922)
"The fingers do not so quickly get over their stubbiness. No matter how style may require a finger nail to be tapering to a rounded ..."

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