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heavyset

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of heavyset

being compact and broad in build and often short in stature

has the heavyset build of a weight lifter

Synonyms of heavyset

chunky, dumpy, squat, squatty, stocky, stout, stubby, stumpy, thickset

Words Related to heavyset

beefy, brawny, bulky, burly, husky, sturdy, thick, thickish, weighty

chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

paunchy, potbellied

Near Antonyms of heavyset

delicate, fragile, frail, puny

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy

scraggy, scrawny, slight

anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, skeletal, wasted

spindly, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy, wiry

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