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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/#m1)

2) Built big and sturdy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/#x1)
- The police were looking for a heavyset person in a red coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/#x2)
- The heavyset farmer lifted the bale easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/#x3)
- Her uncle is tall and heavyset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/#x4)
- The guard was heavyset with a deep voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/#x5)
- A heavyset dog lay by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heavyset» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavyset/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.