Definition of heavyset
: stocky and compact and sometimes tending to stoutness in build
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Examples of heavyset in a Sentence
has the heavyset build of a weight lifter
Recent Examples of heavyset from the Web
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As Kim walked a few hundred meters from the border and climbed some stairs to the Peace House where the summit is taking place, some South Koreans questioned whether the heavyset young leader was physically struggling.
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The thief is described as a heavyset man with a medium complexion, wearing a dark baseball cap, a polo shirt with horizontal stripes and long pants, detectives said.
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Privacy - Terms Suddenly in the left side of the frame, a heavyset woman enters the place, called Flip Flops.
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The lawsuit asserts that calls to 911 described the man firing randomly as a heavyset black man with dreadlocks and in a black jacket.
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Pearce swirls all these fun elements (every actor is giving a loose, goofy performance) together in his cocktail shaker, also adding Zachary Quinto as the Wolf King’s impetuous son, and Dave Bautista as Jean’s heavyset bodyguard Everest.
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Many watching in South Korea saw him as a younger, more heavyset version of his grandfather, North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, and some noted his heavy breathing and wondered about his health.
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Raveesh’s body, heavyset and disheveled, on the floor near the kitchen.
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Lori Clark, who attended Open Door at the time, remembered Lewis as heavyset and graying, always in a suit.
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First Known Use of heavyset
1859
heavyset Synonyms
Near Antonyms
delicate, fragile, frail, puny;
lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin;
angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy;
Related Words
beefy, brawny, bulky, burly, husky, sturdy, thick, thickish, weighty;
chubby, heavy, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby;
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Definition of heavyset for English Language Learners
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: having a heavy and often somewhat fat body
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