stockily

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   so as to be stocky

   “he was stockily built”

Questions about stockily

What does stockily mean?

stockily means "so as to be stocky".

How many syllables are in stockily?

stockily has 3 syllables: stoc-ki-ly. The stress falls on "stoc".

Is stockily a common word?

stockily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.