athletic type

1. 1.

   muscular and big-boned

   Synonymsmesomorphy

   Broaderbody type

Questions about athletic type

What does athletic type mean?

athletic type means "muscular and big-boned".

What is another word for athletic type?

Close synonyms include mesomorphy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is athletic type a common word?

athletic type is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.