Burly and Thin

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Burly

Burly adjective - Strongly and heavily built.
Usage example: a burly delivery man brought the furniture
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Thin is an antonym for burly in topics: brawny, husky.
Nearby Words: burl, burled

Thin

Thin adjective - Having a noticeably small amount of body fat.
Usage example: after her bout with pneumonia, she looked thinner
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Burly is an antonym for thin.
Nearby Words: thinned, thinly, thinness, thinning
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  • Webcomic / Golden Age of Adventurers Fat and Skinny: The thin, cynical Orc scout Tikker and his inexperienced nephew Kogg, a burly Orc/Ogre crossbreed, fit the trope perfectly.
    Source: Webcomic / Golden Age of Adventurers
  • Waif-Fu Subverted with Tetsuko, before her permanent transformation into a 6'3 hulking woman she looked very thin for a someone who could bench press 250 pounds and beat up large burly men.
    Source: Waif-Fu
  • Comic Book / Groo the Wanderer Big, Thin, Short Trio: Pipil Khan's three sons, a large, burly warrior, a powerful magician, and the scheming, weasly runt of the family (who ironically is the son who physically resembles Pipil Khan the most).
    Source: Comic Book / Groo the Wanderer
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