heavyset

See also: heavy-set

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From heavy +‎ set.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɛviˌsɛt/

Adjective

heavyset (comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset)

  2. (of a person) Overweight.
    Synonyms: heavy, husky
    Coordinate terms: thicc (informal, sometimes synonymous); obese
    1. (euphemistic) Obese.
  4. (of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance.
    Synonyms: thickset, stout, stocky
    • 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

  • Heavyset suggests corpulence, and sometimes a squat appearance, but not severe obesity; thus, when someone describes a severely obese person as heavyset, they are being euphemistically polite.

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