heavyset
Appearance
See also: heavy-set
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]heavyset (comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset)
- (of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight; obese.
- 1989 March 20, “One Bear Of a Soviet Politician”, in Time:
- 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
[edit]- Heavyset suggests corpulence, and sometimes a squat appearance, but not extreme obesity.