English

Alternative forms

• heavy-set

Adjective

heavyset ‎(comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset)

1. (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

• Heavyset suggests corpulence, and sometimes a squat appearance, but not extreme obesity.

Synonyms

• stocky, stout, thickset