big-chested

1. 1.

   marked by a large or well-developed chest

   “he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed”

   Synonymschesty

   Similarrobust

Questions about big-chested

What does big-chested mean?

big-chested means "marked by a large or well-developed chest".

How many syllables are in big-chested?

big-chested has 3 syllables: big--che-sted. The stress falls on "big-".

What is another word for big-chested?

Close synonyms include chesty. 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 big-chested a common word?

big-chested 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.