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blocky

[ blok-ee ]

adjective

, block·i·er, block·i·est.
  1. heavily built; solid; stocky.
  2. marked by blocks or patches of unequally distributed light and shade, as in a photograph.


blocky

adjective

  1. like a block, esp in shape and solidity


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Derived Forms

  • ˈblockiness, noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of blocky1

First recorded in 1870–75; block + -y 1

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Example Sentences

Rather, imagine old-school Nintendo-like blocky animations of a ball rolling down a ramp, bouncing into another ball, or suddenly disappearing.

The blocky lamp was made using pieces of cardboard, glued together after cutting out the ore’s shapes.

Most adults can hardly grasp the appeal of the blocky, suburban worlds that their kids love hanging out in, but Roblox understands something fundamental about where online life is going.

As a result Roanoke looks like a city but, for now, still feels like a town, with a core of blocky concrete office buildings, hospitals and hotels rising around highways and small, character-rich neighborhoods in the broad, tree-filled valley.

Montezuma’s Revenge, for example, requires you to move Pedro, the blocky protagonist, through a labyrinth of underground temples while evading obstacles such as traps and enemies and gathering jewels.

The audience was full of blocky types with the kind of faces we had feared in our counter-cultural youth.

His blocky, rugged face was smeared with dirt and dried blood, with a slight stubble shadowing his lean cheeks.

The hummocky surface and blocky material in the slide are well shown along the last half mile of the trail to Strawberry Lake.

They were neatly typed; Alan recognized the blocky purple characters of the voicewrite Hawkes kept in his room.

The information robot was a blocky green-skinned synthetic planted in a kiosk in the middle of a broad well-paved street.

The sun was high and the day was warm, and white, blocky clouds floated in the sky like icebergs in a sea of blue.

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