big-boned

adjective

Definition of big-bonednext
as in lanky

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Recent Examples of big-boned Speaking of big dude, the chair is rated for the big-boned as well. — New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2025 Jean-Yves Thibaudet was the right guest in every way for the big-boned performance at the Huntington. — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025 Two large and in charge ladies were involved in a street fight in West Hollywood early Saturday morning that left one of the big-boned women bleeding from her face. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026 The last time Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes rode into Broadway on the back of a big-boned new play, smothered in five-star reviews and Olivier awards, there were geese, and babies, and bunnies. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for big-boned
  1. lanky
  2. lean
  3. rangy
  4. skinny
  5. weedy
  6. wiry
  7. spindly
  8. reedy
Adjective
  • Gray, a lanky man with a gray mustache, volunteers as a docent at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, just across from Boeing Field.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • Green's first two seasons in college went according to script and the lanky downfield threat was as good as advertised, earning first-team All-SEC honors in back-to-back years.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
Definition of lanky
Adjective
  • Adding non-starchy vegetables, lean protein, and healthy fats to pasta salad or potato salad can reduce their glycemic impact.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 6 July 2026
  • Created in consultation with nutritionist and food consultant Ankita Jalori, the dishes on offer use millets, whole grains, lean proteins like chicken and fish, and low-fat dairy options, such as goat milk.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2026
Definition of lean
Adjective
  • His register has the ability to do justice to Mercury’s legendary vocals, which were rangy yet specific.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • Wideman, one of our more prolific and fascinating novelists, wrote a rangy memoir of his own court time back in 2003.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Definition of rangy
Adjective
  • This season, the slimmer silhouette and skinny fit was back again.
    — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 6 July 2026
  • Rodríguez Castro wore light-blue skinny jeans, a tight, black Hugo Boss T-shirt and Hermes sneakers.
    — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Definition of skinny
Adjective
  • Jeon-Gi lives with his Korean family in Building A, scrapping with kids from other immigrant families in a weedy playground.
    — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
  • Your neighbors probably won't be bothered by your weedy flower beds or rusty lawn furniture.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 June 2026
Definition of weedy
Adjective
  • At the time, Andrés was a wiry teenager with dreams of following in his brother’s footsteps.
    — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Those themes are compelling on paper, but they’re expressed through a confusing mix of abstraction and hyper-local specificity, hidden beneath biker rock riffs, and obscured through Allbrook’s wiry, wailing vocal delivery.
    — Cassidy Sollazzo, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026
Definition of wiry
Adjective
  • These wonders can grow as strange, twisted bushes or as giant, spindly trees.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • Oh no, Armand’s got his spindly roots in the band!
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Definition of spindly
Adjective
  • The prosecutor, Johann Frischman, laid out, in a reedy voice, the criminal complaint.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Among those acolytes is Lucien (Jérémy Gillet), a reedy, repressed young virgin who yearns to be part of the gay community but hasn’t the courage to come out to his domineering mother Christine (Elisabeth Wiener), who also just happens to be the country’s very right-wing health minister.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 May 2026
Definition of reedy

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