heavyset

See also: heavy-set

English

Alternative forms

heavy-set

Etymology

heavy +‎ set

Adjective

heavyset (comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset)

(of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight.
- 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 extreme obesity.

Synonyms

stocky, stout, thickset

Translations

corpulent, and sometimes with a squat appearance

Bulgarian: набит (bg) (nabit)
French: corpulent (fr)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: omfangsrik (no), tett
Plautdietsch: forsch

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