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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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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One of the suspects is described as a heavyset male with a long, red beard.
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The heavyset man comes up behind a woman in her 60s renting a movie at a RedBox kiosk outside a San Diego, Calif., convenience store.
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Days after the theft in November, a woman saw a heavyset man riding Martin’s bike, which has an extra-small frame.
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One is a Hispanic man, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and heavyset.
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The suspect was described as a heavyset black woman in her 40s who stood about 5 feet 4, wore a red baseball hat and black sweater and carried a black backpack.
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In the foreground is a large man, heavyset and jowly.
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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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