heavyset /ˈhɛviˌsɛt/ adjective3 •Overweight. •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. — 1989 •(euphemistic) Obese. formsmore heavyset · most heavyset