Beamy

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  • adjective. Broad in the beam, as a ship.
  • adjective. Emitting beams, as of light; radiant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy: as, “his … beamy spear,”
  • Having horns or antlers: as, “beamy stags,”
  • Nautical, having much beam or breadth; broad in the beam: said of a ship whose beam is more than one tenth of its length.
  • Emitting rays of light; radiant; shining.
  • Figuratively, radiant; joyous; gladsome.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.
  • adjective. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.
  • adjective. Having horns, or antlers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.
  • adjective. Having horns or antlers.
  • adjective. Having much beam or breadth; wide.
  • adjective. Showing or emitting rays of light; beaming; radiant; shining.
  • adjective. Radiant; beamsome; joyous; gladsome.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. broad in the beam
  • adjective. radiating or as if radiating light
  • Word Usage
    "She was somewhat shallow of hull and flat in the floor, to give her a light draught of water, but to compensate for this she was extraordinarily "beamy," which had the twofold effect of imparting great stiffness under canvas, and affording fine roomy decks."
    Equivalent
    bright  broad  wide  
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    massy  radiant  shining