Heavyset

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  heavyset \heavyset\ adj.
     1. obese.
  
     Note: usually men are portly and women are stout
  
     Syn: portly, stout.


          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. heavy and compact in form or build or stature.
  
     Syn: compact, stocky, thick, thickset.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heavyset
       adj : heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact
             build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a
             thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: {compact},
              {stocky}, {thick}, {thickset}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "heavyset":
     adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny,
     broad-bodied, bulky, bullnecked, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky,
     coarse, corpulent, crass, dense, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish,
     fleshy, full, full-bodied, gross, heavy, hefty, hippy, imposing,
     lusty, massive, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy,
     portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, square,
     squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubby, stumpy,
     swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, three-dimensional,
     top-heavy, tubby, viscous, well-fed