What does stoutish mean?
Stoutish means reasonably stout, somewhat stout.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
reasonably stout, somewhat stout.
Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws.
I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string, perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this.
In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores--the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.
Use stoutish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stoutish means reasonably stout, somewhat stout.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws.
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