All heavyweight synonyms
heav·y·weight
H h adj heavyweight
- chunky — A chunky person is broad and heavy.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- copious — A copious amount of something is a large amount of it.
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- cumbersome — Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle.
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- fleshy — having much flesh; plump; fat.
- gravid — pregnant1 (def 1).
- hefty — heavy; weighty: a hefty book.
- huge — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- laden — burdened; loaded down.
- loaded — bearing or having a load; full: a loaded bus.
- lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
- blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
- critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
- crucial — If you describe something as crucial, you mean it is extremely important.
- major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
- serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- four-star — of or being a full general or admiral, as indicated by four stars on an insignia.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
noun heavyweight
- big gun — If you refer to someone as a big gun, you mean that they have a lot of power or influence.
- big kahuna — (Idiomatic) INF A boss, leader, chieftain, or top-ranking person in an organization.
- top cat — the most powerful or important person