heavyset

English

Alternative spellings

• heavy-set

Adjective

heavyset (comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset)

1. Template:of a person Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight.
   • 1989, "One Bear Of a Soviet Politician," Time, 20 Mar.,

     No Soviet political figure has been as irreverently outspoken about Soviet life or as ambitious to change it as Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset, 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains.

Usage notes

• (deprecated template usage) Heavyset suggests corpulence, and sometimes a squat appearance, but not extreme obesity.

Synonyms

• stocky, stout, thickset