chunky

«chunky» in Mova's school dictionary: Thick, solid and heavy-looking: a chunky jumper, chunky… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (chunky, chunkier, chunkiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Thick, solid and heavy-looking: a chunky jumper, chunky boots. tree →

2) Containing thick pieces: chunky soup, chunky peanut butter. tree →

3) (of a person or animal, informal) Short and broad, with a solid body. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life for food, clothes and objects, and in stories for describing things vividly. In art and design "chunky" lines or letters are thick. Saying a person is chunky may be cheeky or unkind. Phrases: chunky knit, chunky chips, chunky peanut butter.

examples

• Grandma knitted me a chunky woolly jumper. tree →
• I like chunky peanut butter with bits of nut. tree →
• She wore chunky boots in the snow. tree →
• The soup was chunky with carrots and potatoes. tree →
• The toddler held a chunky crayon. tree →
• The cat is a bit chunky after the holidays. tree →

note

Forms: chunkier, chunkiest (y to i). From "chunk" (a thick piece). Opposite: smooth (food), thin or slim (things). Be careful using it about people.

In the corpora

• "Chunky" often means fat, especially of a child.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chunky» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.