Hefty

Definitions: Hefty

Hefty

Adjective

1. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms".

2. Of considerable weight and size; "a hefty dictionary".

3. Large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hefty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references)

Synonyms: Hefty

Crosswords: Hefty

You Hefty bag of trash. (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg)

No wonder I'm so hefty. (Postcards from the Edge; writing credit: Carrie Fisher)

Was going for a world record with a Winchester rifle - all he could manage was a Colt .45. I tell you, that man had cheeks like a Hefty Bag. (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Hefty Fairy (reference)

• How to Turn Your Hefty Husband into a Lean Lover: A 12-Step Plan for Healthy Transformation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

After reaching ten years of age, cars must be scrapped or face hefty road taxes. (references)

Italian companies command a hefty 39 percent of the import market, followed by American companies at 20 percent. (references)

Industry specialists, suppliers and end-users expect a hefty rise in demand for Renewable Energy Equipment in the next five years. (references)

Economic History

Senegal

Costs are currently very high, due to SONATEL's hefty licensing fees and its restrictions on VSAT technology to data-only networks. (references)

Uzbekistan

This surrender requirement, raised in January 1999 to 50% from an already steep 30%, is the effective equivalent of a hefty tax on exports. (references)

Korea

Hence, to avoid such legal disputes and hefty legal fees, US companies are urged to do their due diligence when choosing a potential Korean partner. (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

Even capital equipment imports for U.S. Uzbek joint ventures are subject to substantial processing delays and often remain in customs for two to three months, incurring hefty storage costs. (references)

Travel

Norway

Penalties usually include detention, a hefty fine and deportation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "hefty": hefty bill ♦ hefty fellow. Additional references.

Beginning with "hefty": hefty-looking.

Ending with "hefty": ultra-hefty.

Albanian

trupmadh (burly), i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty), i paqmë (clean, hearty), i majmë (adipose, creamy, fat, lardy, pinguid), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potent, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوى (anneal, be fortified, be more powerful, become mighty, become stronger, beefy, boost, brace, cogent, confirm, consolidate, enforce, fasten, fibrous, fortify, freshen, great, grow stronger, harden, heighten, help, heroic, in power, innervate, intensify, invigorate, nerve, prop, reinforce, sinew, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain, tighten), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏ثقيل (boring, cumbersome, dully, heaver, heavy, hulking, leaden, lumbering, massive, oppressive, ponderous, stodgy, uninteresting, unwieldy, weighty), ‏بدين (beefy, chubby, corpulent, fatty, fleshy, obese, overblown, overweight, plump, portly, puffy, replete, rotund, squabby, stout, tubby). (various references)

Bulgarian 

як и едър, тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, powerful, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), мускулест (beefy, brawny, muscled, muscular, ropy, sinewy, strapping), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), изобилен (abounding, abundant, affluent, bountiful, copious, exuberant, fat, flush, free, good, liberal, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, rank, redundant, rich, substantial, thick, unstinted, wealthy). (various references)

Chinese 

重 (heavy, Weighty). (various references)

Czech

hřmotný (loud, tumultuous), statný (burly, gallant, portly, robust, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, valid), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), robustní (beefy, Hardy, robust, sturdy, thickset), pádný (cogent, compelling, convincing, damning, pointed, potent, satisfactory, strong, valid, weighty). (various references)

Farsi 

قوی (Boisterous, Drastic, Fort, Hard, Intense, Irresistible, Lusty, Mighty, Overtone, Potent, Stalwart, Stark, Stocky, Strong, Swith, Valid, Vigorous), سنگین (Burdensome, Cumbersome, Demure, Earnest, Grave, Heavy, Laden, Lumpy, Onerous, Ponderous, Sober, Staid, Stodgy, Unwieldy, Weighty). (various references)

French

lourd (heavy), gros (heavy, heroic), fort (heavy, heroic), costaud. (various references)

German

kräftig (able bodied, athletic, big, bold, brawny, burly, effectual, firm, florid, forceful, fresh, full, Hale, hard, Hardy, healthy, heartily, hearty, heftily, husky, keen, loud, loudly, lustily, lusty, massive, nourishing, powerful, powerfully, puissant, rich, robust, robustly, solid, sound, stalwart, strong, strongly, sturdily, sturdy, substantial, trig, upstanding, vigorous, violent, violently, vivid). (various references)

Greek 

βαρύσ (beefy, cumbrous, heavy, labored, laboured, leaden, logy, lumpish, massive, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, saturnine, stodgy, waterlogged, weighty), ισχυρόσ (forceful, influential, mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong, sturdy). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסון (husky, immunization, inoculation, lusty, powerful, robust, strengthening, strong, sturdy, thickset), כב�" וחזק, בעל �'וף (burly, corpulent, stout). (various references)

Hungarian

nehéz (burdensome, complicated, cumbersome, cumbrous, damper, difficult, grave, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard case, heavy, herculean, inconvenient, it's a bad job!, knotty, laborious, onerous, ponderous, stiff, stodgy, teaser, thorny, to be bunkered, to be hard to please, tough, trying), izmos (beefy, brawny, chunky, have plenty of beef, husky, lusty, muscly, muscular, robustful, robustic, robustious, sinewy, strong, sturdy, thewy). (various references)

Indonesian

kukuh (firm, see: kokoh, strong, tenacious), agam (manly, sturdy, virile). (various references)

Italian

vigoroso (energetic, Hale, hearty, lusty, nervous, peppy, pithy, powerful, robust, rude, spirited, strenuous, strong, vigorous, zippy), robusto (able bodied, beefy, bouncing, burly, chunky, Hale, Hardy, hearty, muscular, robust, rugged, solid, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, tough), forte (aloud, big, brawny, deep, Doughty, fast, fastness, forceful, Fort, forte, hard, hardly, heavy, high, hot, keen, living, loud, loudly, mighty, nervous, nervy, potent, puissant, racy, robust, rugged, severe, short, shrewd, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, vigorous). (various references)

Korean 

무거운 (heavy). (various references)

Manx

thollee (athletic, beefy, big, brawny, burly, robust, stocky, strapping, strong bodied, well-built). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

robusto (able bodied, cant, Hale, lusty, masculinity, nervy, Randy, robust, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, tough, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, drabbet, elephantine, gloomy forecast, gross, heavy, hulking, leaden, loin, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, massy, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plop, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stodgy, stringent, tubby, unwieldy, weighty), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, fortress, full blown, Hale, hard, heavy, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, man-made fibers, masculine, masterful, mighty, narcissism, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, Venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), avaliar o peso de. (various references)

Romanian

voinic (bulky, burly, chopping, hale and hearty, Hardy, healthy, hero, husky, mite, muscular, nervy, powerful, stout, strapping, sturdy, tight, upstanding, vigorous), solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hard and fast, massive, massy, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), robust (bouncing, Hale, Hardy, iron, lusty, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, sturdy, tough, well knit). (various references)

Russian 

обильный (abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, exuberant, generous, hearty, heavy, lavish, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, rich, riotous, torrential, ungrudging), здоровенный, дюжий (stalwart). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

težak (bulky, crushing, difficile, difficult, formidable, grave, hard, heavy, kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumbering, ponderous, punishing, rough, swingeing, trying, uneasy, weighty), snažan (able bodied, burly, firm, forceful, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, robustious, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, vivid, well knit). (various references)

Spanish

pesado (awkward, boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, heavyweight, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, lacklustre, leaden, logy, muggy, non-volatile, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weary, weighty), mayúsculo (capital, large), grande (ample, appreciable, arch, big, bull, colossal, commodious, gigantic, grandee, great, high, large, lively, lusty, sizable, sizeable, sore, spanking, tall, unqualified, walloping, wide, widespread, yeoman), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, bouncing, brawny, burly, cast iron, cogent, ebullient, fierce, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, heady, hearty, heavy, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, spanking, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, sturdy, telling, throbbing, tough, vigorous), fornido (beefy, chunky, heavy-set, husky, Square, stalwart, stout, strapping, sturdy, well knit), abultado (bluff, bulging, bulgy, bulky, full, large, thick, unwieldy). (various references)

Swedish

stor och stark (husky), skrymmande (bulky, cumbersome, unwieldy), kraftig (big, bouncing, crash, forcible, Hale, hard, hearty, heavy, high-powered, intense, lusty, meaty, potent, powerful, rich, robust, robustious, round, sinewy, spanking, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, thick-set, vigorous, violent, virtuous). (various references)

Thai

แข็งแรง (husky, lusty, red-blooded, robust, sound), หนัก. (various references)

Turkish

iri yarı (amply dimensioned, beefy, big, burly, chopping, portly, stout), etkili (commanding, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forceful, forcible, influential, moving, operative, penetrating, penetrative, poignant, potent, powerful, sovereign, swinging, telling, trenchant), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty), çam yarması gibi. (various references)

Ukranian 

здоровенний (beefy, weighty), дужий (beefy, bouncing, hard, iron, lusty, nervous, nervy, pretty, robust, strapping, stubbed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vạm vỡ (burly, husky, muscular, rugged, stalwart, strapping), lực lưỡng (athletic, beefy, burly, thewy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Hefty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defty, efty, hamty, heaty, heffy, heftys, hefy, Hefyn, herty, hetty, hity, hotty, hufty, huty, Kheftyu, Sheeffry, wefty, zefty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: heft, hyte, they.

-2 letters: eft, eth, feh, fet, fey, het, hey, the, thy, tye, yeh, yet.

-3 letters: ef, eh, et, he, ye.

+2 letters: heftily, thyself.

+3 letters: etherify, fatherly, feathery, whitefly.

+4 letters: flyweight, hatefully.

+5 letters: fetchingly, flycatcher, flyweights.

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