chested

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UK/ˈtʃɛst.ɪd/US/ˈt͡ʃɛstɪd/US/ˈt͡ʃɛstəd/Australia/ˈtʃestəd/

adjective

Having a chest (with a specified quality).

“Jenny was the most flat-chested of her friends.”

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of chest
adjective
  1. in compoundsusuallyHaving a chest (with a specified quality).

    Jenny was the most flat-chested of her friends.

    5 more examples

    Spare, like Henry the Fifth, almost to the manly defect of leanness, his proportions were slight to those which gave such portly majesty to the vast-chested Edward, but they evinced the promise of almost equal strength […]

    1843, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last of the Barons, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, pages 126–7

    Beholding Ajax then, the aged king / Asked yet again: "Who is that other chief / Of the Achaians, tall, and large of limb,— / Taller and broader-chested than the rest?"

    c. 1874, William Cullen Bryant, The Iliad of Homer, Translated into English Blank Verse, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Book III, p. 76

    Loud greetings followed, and another burst of laughter, heavy, deep-chested and glad.

    1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1928, Part VI, p. 185

    From behind him there emerged a broad-chested guard with a long black truncheon in his hand.

    1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Three, Chapter 1

    The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover.

    1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 85

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APA

chested. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chested

MLA

“chested.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chested. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chested,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chested.

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