Definition of "heavyset"

heavyset

adjective
comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset
1. (of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight.
  Quotations
  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.
  1989 March 20, “One Bear Of a Soviet Politician”, in Time