Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Rather broad; moderately broad.
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- adjective Somewhat
broad .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am at present a middle-aged man of a broadish build, in cords, leggings, and a sleeved waistcoat the strings of which is always gone behind.
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I am at present a middle-aged man of a broadish build, in cords, leggings, and a sleeved waistcoat the strings of which is always gone behind.
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We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house.
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Away below me I saw another broadish valley, and it occurred to me that if I crossed it
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The third still presented her back to him — a sturdy, broadish back, topped by
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In the distance a broadish, reddish river flowed east.
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The figure was visible — that of a short broadish man, with a mass of cloaks, rugs, and mufflers across his arm.
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For example, the entrance — or should I say the exit? — of a broadish little river is just away on the south bank.
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This was a broadish path that seemed to have seen a lot of use recently, to judge by the broken branches on either side of it.
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Knox, as we are told by a surviving contemporary (who enclosed a portrait of him along with the description), was a man of slightly less than middle height, but with broadish shoulders, limbs well put together, and long fingers.
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