Meanings
adjectiveheavyset (comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset)
comparative more heavyset · superlative most heavyset · alternative heavy-set
- Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance.
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.
1989 March 20, “One Bear Of a Soviet Politician”, in Time
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Translations
Bulgarian набит
- набит (nabit)corpulent, and sometimes with a squat appearance
French corpulent
- corpulentcorpulent, and sometimes with a squat appearance
Norwegian Bokmål omfangsrik, tett
- omfangsrikcorpulent, and sometimes with a squat appearance
- tettcorpulent, and sometimes with a squat appearance
Swedish kraftig
- kraftigcorpulent, and sometimes with a squat appearance
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