burly

burly is a 5-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.
2. adjective. Coarse and rough; boisterous.
3. adjective. muscular and heavily built

   "a beefy wrestler"

   "had a tall burly frame"

   Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping

Synonyms

beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping

Common word forms

burlier, burlies, burlily, burliest

Words from these letters

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