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Heavy   /hˈɛvi/   Listen
Heavy

adjective
1.
Of comparatively great physical weight or density.  "Lead is a heavy metal" , "Heavy mahogany furniture"  Antonym: light.
2.
Unusually great in degree or quantity or number.  "A heavy fine" , "Heavy casualties" , "Heavy losses" , "Heavy rain" , "Heavy traffic"  Antonym: light.
3.
Of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment.  "Heavy infantry" , "A heavy cruiser" , "Heavy guns" , "Heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries"  Antonym: light.
4.
Marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness.  "A heavy schedule" , "Heavy news" , "A heavy silence" , "Heavy eyelids"  Antonym: light.
5.
Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it.  Synonyms: fleshy, overweight.
6.
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained.  Synonyms: clayey, cloggy.
7.
Darkened by clouds.  Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening.
8.
Of great intensity or power or force.  "The fighting was heavy" , "Heavy seas"  Antonym: light.
9.
(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight.  "Heavy water"  Antonym: light.
10.
(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain.
11.
Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter.  Synonyms: dense, impenetrable.  "Heavy fog" , "Impenetrable gloom"
12.
Of relatively large extent and density.
13.
Made of fabric having considerable thickness.
14.
Prodigious.  Synonym: big.  "Big eater" , "Heavy investor"
15.
Full and loud and deep.  Synonym: sonorous.  "A herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
16.
Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors.  Synonyms: hard, intemperate.
17.
Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought.  Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty.  "Faced a grave decision in a time of crisis" , "A grievous fault" , "Heavy matters of state" , "The weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
18.
Slow and laborious because of weight.  Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous.  "Moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot" , "Ponderous prehistoric beasts" , "A ponderous yawn"
19.
Large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work.  "Heavy machinery"
20.
Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal.
21.
Sharply inclined.
22.
Full of; bearing great weight.  Synonym: weighed down.  "Vines weighed down with grapes"
23.
Requiring or showing effort.  Synonyms: labored, laboured.  "The subject made for labored reading"
24.
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.  Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome.  "A grueling campaign" , "Hard labor" , "Heavy work" , "Heavy going" , "Spent many laborious hours on the project" , "Set a punishing pace"
25.
Lacking lightness or liveliness.  Synonym: leaden.  "A leaden conversation"
26.
(of sleep) deep and complete.  Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless.  "Fell into a profound sleep" , "A sound sleeper" , "Deep wakeless sleep"
27.
In an advanced stage of pregnancy.  Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child.  "Was great with child"
noun
1.
An actor who plays villainous roles.
2.
A serious (or tragic) role in a play.
adverb
1.
Slowly as if burdened by much weight.  Synonym: heavily.



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"Heavy" Quotes from Famous Books



... 361. "I was so weary of drawing-rooms, of jets of water, of bowers, of flower-beds and of those that showed them to me; I was so overwhelmed with pamphlets, harpsichords, games, knots, stupid witticisms, simpering looks, petty story-tellers and heavy suppers, that when I spied out a corner in a hedge, a bush, a barn, a meadow, or when, on passing through a hamlet, I caught the smell of a good parsley omelet. . I sent to the devil all the rouge, frills, flounces ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine
... advantage of the dining-room where she was doing little things, for the next day, watched the drama with a heavy heart. What had come between her children, and what could she do about it? The only comforting thing about it seemed to be that each was as unhappy as the other. Could it be that Howard Letchworth was jealous of this small-souled, spoiled son of fortune ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... for every syllable had burned into her soul, and she could have repeated each word of the cruel message. This, then, was the end of her bright dream of bliss! She did not weep, for she could not. The fountain of her tears seemed dried up. A heavy weight had suddenly fallen on all her faculties. The objects in the room chased each other in rapid circles, while Dr. Lacey stood in the distance mocking her anguish. A faint feeling gathered round her heart. She uttered a low ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes
... is taken to protect the seeds against the stifling heat of sunrays as well as heavy showers. To this end forked sticks about three inches high, are placed around the tobacco beds, opposite one another, and into these forks thin twigs are laid, which are covered with palm-leaves in such a way as ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
... really great race-horses. He had owned some famous sprinters, but his knowledge of the racing game had convinced him that, could he but acquire Panchito, he would be the owner of a true king of the turf. The assurance that, with all his great wealth, this supreme delight was denied him, was a heavy blow. ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne


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