heavyset

«heavyset» in Mova's school dictionary: Heavyset describes a person with a large, solid, broad… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (also heavy-set)

meaning for a pupil

1) Heavyset describes a person with a large, solid, broad body, often strong and a bit heavy. tree →

2) Built big and sturdy. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories and descriptions of people, and in police descriptions. It tells the reader someone is broad and big. It is a polite way of describing size.

examples

• A heavyset man held the door open. tree →
• The police were looking for a heavyset person in a red coat. tree →
• The heavyset farmer lifted the bale easily. tree →
• Her uncle is tall and heavyset. tree →
• The guard was heavyset with a deep voice. tree →
• A heavyset dog lay by the fire. tree →

note

Also written «heavy-set». More polite than «fat». Describing people's bodies can hurt feelings; be kind.

In the corpora

• "Heavyset" is an American way to say fat or heavily built.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «heavyset» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.