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In some senses, heavyset is marked as euphemistic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
heavyset
UK /ˈhɛviˌsɛt/ US /ˈhɛviˌsɛt/
adj 3
Definitions
adj
1
Overweight.
2
Overweight.
3
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.
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