He was broad-shouldered and a head taller than most of his peers.
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Broad-shouldered
Synonyms for "broad-shouldered" (16 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (4)
Related words (8)
Adjective(1 words)
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22 translations across 16 languages.
Aromanian
2 entries- bãtalcu adj (having broad shoulders)
- plãtãros adj (having broad shoulders)
Catalan
1 entries- espatllut adj (having broad shoulders)
Czech
1 entries- ramenatý adj (having broad shoulders)
Dutch
1 entries- breedgeschouderd adj (having broad shoulders)
Finnish
3 entries- harteikas adj (having broad shoulders)
- harteva adj (having broad shoulders)
- leveäharteinen adj (having broad shoulders)
French
1 entries- large d'épaules adj (having broad shoulders)
German
1 entries- breitschultrig adj (having broad shoulders)
Icelandic
1 entries- herðabreiður adj (having broad shoulders)
Polish
2 entries- barczysty adj (having broad shoulders)
- pleczysty adj (having broad shoulders)
Romanian
1 entries- spătos adj (having broad shoulders)
Russian
2 entries- плечи́стый adj (having broad shoulders)
- широкопле́чий adj (having broad shoulders)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- plèćat adj (having broad shoulders)
- плѐћат adj (having broad shoulders)
Slovene
1 entries- plečàt adj (having broad shoulders)
Swedish
1 entries- bredaxlad adj (having broad shoulders)
Turkish
1 entries- geniş omuzlu adj (having broad shoulders)
Ukrainian
1 entries- широкоплечий adj (having broad shoulders)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
My husband is broad-shouldered, with distinctly short arms.
Source: tatoeba (5143069)
Ms. Lester has the tall, broad-shouldered look of a farm girl and sports a bright red baseball cap that reads "cowgirl". She's one of a group of volunteers setting up water tanks and fencing across a 200,000-hectare swath of northern Arizona. The tanks will eventually provide water to hundreds of elk, deer, antelope, and even cattle. "I mean, they gotta drink, and in this kind of drought, you've gotta bring the water to them and take care of them, because they will suffer if we don't do something out here," she says.
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Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.
Source: wiktionary
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