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# blocky

«blocky» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made of block shapes, with square edges and corners** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (blocky, blockier, blockiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made of block shapes, with square edges and corners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#m1)

2) Looking chunky and not smooth or detailed, like the pictures in some video games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art and computing lessons it describes pictures made of big squares or pixels, like in Minecraft-style games. In design and technology it describes models made of building blocks. It tells the reader a shape is square and chunky.

### examples

- The game has blocky trees and square clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#x1)
- My drawing looked blocky because I used a ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#x2)
- The old computer made blocky pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#x3)
- We built a blocky castle out of building bricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#x4)
- The robot had a blocky head and arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#x5)
- When you zoom in too far, the photo gets blocky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#x6)
- Her handwriting is blocky and upright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/#x7)

### note

Adjective made from «block» + -y. Comparatives: blockier, blockiest (y → i). Informal-ish, but fine in description. Similar words: chunky, pixelated, square.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blocky» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blocky/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.