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hefty

[hef-tee]

heft·y

[hef-tee]
adjective, heft·i·er, heft·i·est.
1.
heavy; weighty: a hefty book.
2.
big and strong; powerful; muscular: a hefty athlete.
3.
impressively large or substantial: a hefty increase in salary.

Origin:
1865–70; heft + -y1

heft·i·ly, adverb
heft·i·ness, noun


2. robust, husky, burly, stalwart.

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Hefty is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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hefty (ˈhɛftɪ)
 
adj , heftier, heftiest
1.  big and strong
2.  characterized by vigour or force: a hefty blow
3.  large, bulky, or heavy
4.  sizable; involving a large amount of money: a hefty bill; a hefty wage
 
'heftily
 
adv
 
'heftiness
 
n

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