Used in a Sentence

blocky

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for blocky.

Editorial note

It just happens to be a long blocky quote, so it looks merely like a bold post.

Examples13
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Resembling a block in shape.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of blocky gathered in one view.

adjective

Resembling a block in shape.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blocky.

Example sentences

1

It just happens to be a long blocky quote, so it looks merely like a bold post.

2

It's often overlooked the CRTs those art were made for were quite blurry and round, alleviating the blocky look.

3

How about using examples where JPG are traditionally bad at, such as pictures with dark gradients leading to blocky artifacts?

4

I'm not exactly sure what is the fascination with these blocky-looking, dumbed down, drag-and-drop languages that look the same?

5

Perhaps I'm missing something but the video you linked to seems to have blocky movement as well.

6

Huge blocky pixel art never really looked that way in the first place.

7

Fix the ugly, unfinished blocky UI around the tabs and address bar, and stop wasting so much space on the top window border.

8

I don't think there's any reason why the Ruby stuff necessarily has to be slower and blocky.

9

Because of this, an image like Yoshi looked just fine, because we weren't looking at a blocky grid of squares.

10

The main wired font has always been blocky/techno/sci-fi, and this new headline font is trying to look like a newspaper font from the 1920s.

11

I think there's less visible external parts and reminds me more of the first Thinkpads, with a very minimalist blocky feel.

12

And yeah, ThinkPads tend to look blocky; I don't think that's news to anyone.

Quote examples

1

This explains why in signal processing the Gibbs ringing effect looks sinusoidal, and why errors in approximation in Haar look "blocky", etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use blocky in a sentence?

It just happens to be a long blocky quote, so it looks merely like a bold post.

What does blocky mean?

Resembling a block in shape.

What part of speech is blocky?

blocky is commonly used as adjective.