adjective (heftier, heftiest)
1 (of a person or an object) big and heavy:
Her brothers were both hefty men in their forties.
2 (of an amount of money) large; larger than usual or expected:
They sold it easily and made a hefty profit. * Interest rates have gone up to a hefty 12%.
3 using a lot of force:
He gave the door a hefty kick.
heftily adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hefty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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