All heavyset synonyms
heav·y·set
H h adjective heavyset
- stocky — of solid and sturdy form or build; thick-set and, usually, short.
- well-built — simple past tense and past participle of build.
- bulky — Something that is bulky is large and heavy. Bulky things are often difficult to move or deal with.
- burly — A burly man has a broad body and strong muscles.
- hefty — heavy; weighty: a hefty book.
- brawny — Someone who is brawny is strong and has big muscles.
- beefy — Someone, especially a man, who is beefy has a big body and large muscles.
adj heavyset
- blocky — like a block, esp in shape and solidity
- chunky — A chunky person is broad and heavy.
- compact — Compact things are small or take up very little space. You use this word when you think this is a good quality.
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- dumpy — short and stout; squat: a dumpy figure.
- fat — File Allocation Table
- plump — direct; downright; blunt.
- solid — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
- squat — to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.
- stodgy — heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
- stout — bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat: She is getting too stout for her dresses. Synonyms: big, rotund, stocky, portly, fleshy. Antonyms: thin, lean, slender, slim; skinny, scrawny.
- stubby — of the nature of or resembling a stub.
- stumpy — of the nature of or resembling a stump.
- sturdy — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- thick — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- thickset — set thickly or in close arrangement; dense: a thickset hedge.