Long
Long adjective - Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified.
Usage example: a long distance
Nearby Word: longed
Stubby
Stubby adjective - Being compact and broad in build and often short in stature.
Both words in one sentence
- Its body shape was more similar to a miniaturized pteranodont than to a rhamphorhynch, with long, thin jaws, elongated wings, weak hindlimbs, small "wing-hands," and stubby tail.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The original Gundam itself can extend its two beam sabres into stubby, long-handled tridents weighted for throwing.
Source: Blade on a Stick -
Sometimes he'll walk on two legs as a very cartoonish Funny Animal, with long arms and stubby legs.
Source: Comic Strip / Calvin and Hobbes
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