heftier; heftiest
1
: quite heavy
2
a
: marked by bigness, bulk, and usually strength
a hefty football player
c
: impressively large : substantial
hefty portions
Examples of hefty in a Sentence
He was a tall, hefty man.
Her boss gave her a hefty raise.
a hefty dose of irony
He gave the door a hefty kick.
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Rachel Choy, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market – an industry sidebar to the Black Nights Film Festival – has unveiled exclusively to Variety the strong line up of 15 European titles from 13 countries competing for the hefty €20,000 ($23,200) Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Building out that much infrastructure requires a hefty amount of new energy.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Redford shared in a September 26 Instagram video, under her account @linaredford, that Sinbad's weight had taken a hefty toll.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Hefty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hefty. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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hefty
adjective
heftier; heftiest
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