Adjective husky has 2 senses
- beefy, burly, husky, strapping, buirdly - muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term"
Antonym: frail (indirect, via robust)
- gruff, hoarse, husky - deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson
Antonyms: euphonious, euphonous (indirect, via cacophonous)
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Noun husky has 1 sense
- Eskimo dog, husky - breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog
--1 is a kind of working dog
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