pyknic type

1. 1.

   round, fat, and heavy

   Synonymsendomorphy

   Broaderbody type

Questions about pyknic type

What does pyknic type mean?

pyknic type means "round, fat, and heavy".

What is another word for pyknic type?

Close synonyms include endomorphy. 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 pyknic type a common word?

pyknic 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.