Those burly books were really expensive.
Source: tatoeba (4995879)
Burly
//ˈbɜːli//
Synonyms for "burly" (89 found)
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Synonyms
9 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
5 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 24 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- снажен adj (well-built)
Catalan
2 entries- apersonat adj (well-built)
- corpulent adj (well-built)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 魁偉 /魁伟 adj (well-built)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- mazallı adj (well-built)
Danish
1 entries- kraftig adj (well-built)
Dutch
2 entries- forsgebouwd adj (well-built)
- gespierd adj (well-built)
Esperanto
1 entries- fortika adj (well-built)
Finnish
2 entries- roteva adj (well-built)
- vahva adj (well-built)
French
4 entries- costaud adj (well-built)
- fort adj (well-built)
- robuste adj (well-built)
- solide adj (well-built)
German
1 entries- kräftig adj (well-built)
Hungarian
2 entries- termetes adj (well-built)
- testes adj (well-built)
Icelandic
1 entries- þrekvaxinn adj (well-built)
Irish
2 entries- alpartha adj (well-built)
- téagartha adj (well-built)
Italian
2 entries- massiccio adj (well-built)
- robusto adj (well-built)
Japanese
1 entries- 逞しい adj (well-built)
Māori
2 entries- pūngerungeru adj (well-built)
- takapū adj (well-built)
Polish
1 entries- krzepki adj (well-built)
Portuguese
2 entries- corpulento adj (well-built)
- grandão adj (well-built)
Romanian
2 entries- forțos adj (well-built)
- robust adj (well-built)
Russian
3 entries- доро́дный adj (well-built)
- здоро́вый adj (well-built)
- кре́пкий adj (well-built)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- tapaidh adj (well-built)
- tomadach adj (well-built)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- stasit adj (well-built)
Spanish
4 entries- anchote adj (well-built)
- corpulento adj (well-built)
- fornido adj (well-built)
- musculoso adj (well-built)
Swedish
4 entries- biffig adj (well-built)
- korpulent adj (well-built)
- robust adj (well-built)
- storvuxen adj (well-built)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
He was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.
Source: tatoeba (6981682)
A police officer radioed his superiors to report that things were calm, and foreign journalists vastly outnumbered the protesters. Behind him, burly plainclothes security agents stood shoulder-to-shoulder, blocking the street.
Source: tatoeba (12207513)
She prefers big, burly men.
Source: tatoeba (12335074)
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