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词汇 hefty
释义 hefty
adjective
uk /ˈhef.ti/ us /ˈhef.ti/
large in amount, size, force, etc.: (数额、尺寸、力量等)大的,可观的
a hefty bill/fine巨额账单/罚款
Her salary will go up by a hefty 13 percent.她的薪水将猛增13%。
a hefty book containing a lot of information内容翔实的巨著
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

greater than the average size or amount
bigThey live in a big house in the country.
largeA large number of people were crowded into the room.
greatThe party was a great success.
enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Big and quite big
appreciable
baronial
bigly
bloated
boxcar
bulky
expansive
heaping
hearty
heftily
higher
hulking
rambling
roomy
royal
royally
savage
sizable
sizably
the bigger the betteridiom

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Thick, dense and heavy

hefty | American Dictionary


hefty
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/ˈhef·ti/
large in amount or size:
a hefty fine/bonus
a hefty steak dinner
a hefty, pink-faced baby

hefty | Business English


hefty
adjective
uk /ˈhefti/us
extremely large:
a hefty 15.9%/30%/54%, etc.One of the market's star performers announced a hefty $10bn share buyback programme.
hefty returns/dividendsThey promised investors hefty returns.
a hefty fee/fine/premiumAvoid a hefty fine by posting your completed tax return by the end of this month.
hefty increases/losses/rises
a hefty debt/profit/discount
hefty bonuses/commissions/penalties

Examples of hefty


hefty
Over millennia, speciesism has compiled a hefty volume.
Residents usually pay a hefty entrance fee as well as monthly payments.
The latter kind of publications necessarily draws in the data provided by the former, sometimes in hefty lumps.
His historiographical sin is a common one, even among historians, but within the context of the opera it has some hefty implications.
They took all the hefty women in front and told them to break the chain.
It is impossible to summarise so hefty a volume.
Ranging from thirty to forty-five minutes in length, these are hefty works, often symphonic in scope.
This gave a green light - and a hefty push - to arts organizations to pursue a social inclusion agenda.
Soon the company's foreign affiliates were obliged to pay dividends, and it was itself ordered to pay a hefty 30 per cent royalty rate.
So, although encyclopaedic in ambition and girth - weighing in at a hefty 1.2 kg - the book manages not to feel cumbersome or over-crowded.
Scholars will appreciate the accessibility, affordability and authority of this hefty edition.
Some of the essays are lengthy and are supported by hefty endnotes whilst a small minority are somewhat brief and less obviously buttressed by extensive and long-researched citation.
I was hefty and strong.
Hefty fines were imposed, and the journalist concerned was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour.
This hefty volume is an important marker of present progress, and is the sixth in a series dealing in cellular origin and life in extreme habitats and astrobiology.
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