big-boned

adjective

Of a person or animal: large but not obese.

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Meanings

adjectivebig-boned (comparative more big-boned, superlative most big-boned)

comparative more big-boned · superlative most big-boned · alternative big boned

  1. Of a person or animal: large but not obese.

    […] big-boned womenfolk strode away from their tea-tables to listen to the imperious Doctor.

    1904, Rudyard Kipling, They
  2. euphemistichumorousFat, obese.

    Coffins for the Big-Boned. As the media never tires of telling us, America has become a junk-food nation with the fattest population on the planet.

    2009, Harold Schechter, The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivehaving a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh

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robust
Also see
obeserobuststockythickset

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Esperanto grand’osta
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Swedish storvuxen
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Cite this entry
APA

big-boned. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/big-boned

MLA

“big-boned.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/big-boned. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “big-boned,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/big-boned.

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