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Hefty

adjective

(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful. Synonyms: brawny, muscular, powerful, sinewy. "A muscular boxer" , "Powerful arms"

Of considerable weight and size.

Large in amount or extent or degree. Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy. "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"

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"Hefty" Quotes from Famous Books

... over. I faced the fourteen miles back to Gannat very stiff. All during those hours I had been wondering at the novelty of Europe, and at all these young men now so different, at the silence and the cover, and the hefty, disposable little guns. But when I had my face turned southward again to get back to a meal, that other aspect of Europe, its eternity, was pictured all abroad. For there right before me stood the immutable mountains, which stand enormous and sullen, but also vague at the base, and, therefore, ...

— On Something • H. Belloc

... the picture is as slim as a girl in her first pair o' cossets a-standin' on a chair a-reachin' bottles off a top shelf, and your Aunt Lucy's that hefty she hain't stood on a chair for ten years for fear 'twould break down, and she's had to trust the top shelf to the hired girl. I guess when she goes to Heaven she'll want to stop on the way up and fix that top shelf to suit her. So she ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various

... it," he panted presently. "Seems like I was a leetle too hefty. Dave, do you want to try it? Might be an opening to the outside world, an' if there is, we won't have to go through thet ...

— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer

Words linked to "Hefty" : considerable, heft, strong, heavy, heftiness