Adjective

(er)

large; bulky, thickset; corpulent, fat.

(obsolete) bold, strong-minded; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular.

* Shakespeare

a stouter champion never handled sword

* Clarendon

He lost the character of a bold, stout , magnanimous man.

* Daniel

The lords all stand / To clear their cause, most resolutely stout .

(obsolete) proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.

* Bible, Mal. iii. 13

Your words have been stout against me.

* Latimer

Commonly they that be rich are lofty and stout .

firm; resolute; dauntless.

materially strong, enduring.

Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}

obstinate.

Adjective

(er)

Wide in extent or scope.

three feet broad

the broad expanse of ocean

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian

, title= Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , passage=Julia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, argues that extra powers to ban violent videos online will "end up too broad and open to misapplication, which would damage freedom of expression".}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

* Bishop Porteus

broad and open day

Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.

* John Locke

a broad mixture of falsehood

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

* D. Daggett

The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.

* E. Everett

in a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way

Plain; evident.

a broad hint

Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

* Shakespeare

as broad and general as the casing air

(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

a broad''' compliment; a '''broad''' joke; '''broad humour

(of an accent) Strongly regional.

(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.