Usually means: Larger than average skeletal structure.
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  1. big-boned: Merriam-Webster
  2. big-boned: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. big-boned, big-boned: Collins English Dictionary
  4. big-boned: Vocabulary.com
  5. big-boned: Wordnik
  6. big-boned: Wiktionary
  7. big-boned: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. big-boned: Dictionary.com
  9. Big-boned: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. big-boned: Rhymezone
  11. big-boned: FreeDictionary.org
  12. big-boned: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. big-boned: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Of a person or animal: large but not obese.
▸ adjective:  (humorous or euphemistic) Fat, obese.

Similar:
robust, big boned, beefy, corpulent, bulky, heavyset, stout, bulksome, overbig, plus-size, more...

Opposite:
slender, petite, thin, small-boned

Types:
husky, sturdy, thickset, portly, hefty, rotund, corpulent, more...

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Similar:
robust, big boned, beefy, corpulent, bulky, heavyset, stout, bulksome, overbig, plus-size, more...

Opposite:
slender, petite, thin, small-boned

Types:
husky, sturdy, thickset, portly, hefty, rotund, corpulent, more...



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