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1. | [ adjective ] of comparatively great physical weight or density | |
Examples: | "a heavy load" "lead is a heavy metal" "heavy mahogany furniture" |
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Related terms: | light heavyweight ponderous dense welterweight hefty doughy heavier-than-air massive middleweight weight | |
2. | [ adjective ] unusually great in degree or quantity or number | |
Examples: | "heavy taxes" "a heavy fine" "heavy casualties" "heavy losses" "heavy rain" "heavy traffic" |
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Related terms: | light thick harsh | |
3. | [ adjective ] of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment | |
Examples: | "heavy artillery" "heavy infantry" "a heavy cruiser" "heavy guns" "heavy industry" |
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Related terms: | light | |
4. | [ adjective ] having or suggesting a viscous consistency | |
Examples: | "heavy cream" |
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Related terms: | thick | |
5. | [ adjective ] wide from side to side | |
Synonyms: | thick | |
Examples: | "a heavy black mark" |
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Related terms: | wide | |
6. | [ adjective ] marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness | |
Examples: | "a heavy heart" "a heavy schedule" "heavy news" "a heavy silence" "heavy eyelids" |
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Related terms: | light distressing burdensome leaden weighty oppressive | |
7. | [ adjective ] darkened by clouds | |
Synonyms: | sullen lowering threatening | |
Examples: | "a heavy sky" |
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Related terms: | cloudy | |
8. | [ adjective ] (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | |
Synonyms: | cloggy clayey | |
Examples: | "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" |
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Related terms: | compact | |
9. | [ adjective ] usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | |
Synonyms: | overweight fleshy | |
Related terms: | fat | |
10. | [ adverb ] slowly as if burdened by much weight | |
Synonyms: | heavily | |
Examples: | "time hung heavy on their hands" |
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11. | [ adjective ] requiring or showing effort | |
Synonyms: | laboured labored | |
Examples: | "heavy breathing" "the subject made for labored reading" |
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Related terms: | effortful | |
12. | [ adjective ] characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | |
Synonyms: | hard arduous punishing gruelling laborious labourious grueling toilsome backbreaking | |
Examples: | "worked their arduous way up the mining valley" "a grueling campaign" "hard labor" "heavy work" "heavy going" "spent many laborious hours on the project" |
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Related terms: | effortful | |
13. | [ adjective ] slow and laborious because of weight | |
Synonyms: | ponderous lumbering | |
Examples: | "the heavy tread of tired troops" "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot" "ponderous prehistoric beasts" "a ponderous yawn" |
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Related terms: | heavy-footed | |
14. | [ adjective ] of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | |
Synonyms: | grievous weighty grave | |
Examples: | "grave responsibilities" "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" |
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Related terms: | important | |
15. | [ adjective ] full of; bearing great weight | |
Synonyms: | weighed_down | |
Examples: | "trees heavy with fruit" "vines weighed down with grapes" |
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Related terms: | full | |
16. | [ noun ] (performing arts) an actor who plays villainous roles | |
Related terms: | actor | |
17. | [ adjective ] (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | |
Examples: | "heavy hydrogen" "heavy water" |
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Related terms: | light chemistry | |
18. | [ adjective ] of great intensity or power or force | |
Examples: | "a heavy blow" "the fighting was heavy" "heavy seas" |
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Related terms: | light big | |
19. | [ adjective ] sharply inclined | |
Examples: | "a heavy grade" |
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Related terms: | steep | |
20. | [ adjective ] of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately | |
Synonyms: | hard | |
Examples: | "does a lot of hard drinking" "a heavy drinker" |
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Related terms: | intemperate | |
21. | [ adjective ] made of fabric having considerable thickness | |
Examples: | "a heavy coat" |
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Related terms: | thick | |
22. | [ adjective ] full and loud and deep | |
Synonyms: | sonorous | |
Examples: | "heavy sounds" "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" |
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Related terms: | full | |
23. | [ adjective ] used of syllables or musical beats | |
Synonyms: | strong accented | |
Related terms: | stressed | |
24. | [ adjective ] prodigious | |
Synonyms: | big | |
Examples: | "big spender" "big eater" "heavy investor" |
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Related terms: | intemperate | |
25. | [ adjective ] dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal | |
Examples: | "a heavy pudding" |
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Related terms: | indigestible | |
26. | [ adjective ] (of sleep) deep and complete | |
Synonyms: | sound wakeless profound | |
Examples: | "a heavy sleep" "fell into a profound sleep" "a sound sleeper" "deep wakeless sleep" |
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Related terms: | deep | |
27. | [ adjective ] permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | |
Synonyms: | dense impenetrable | |
Examples: | "dense smoke" "heavy fog" "impenetrable gloom" |
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Related terms: | thick | |
28. | [ adjective ] (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain | |
Examples: | "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'" |
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Related terms: | wicked | |
29. | [ adjective ] large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work | |
Examples: | "a heavy truck" "heavy machinery" |
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Related terms: | heavy-duty | |
30. | [ adjective ] lacking lightness or liveliness | |
Synonyms: | leaden | |
Examples: | "heavy humor" "a leaden conversation" |
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Related terms: | dull | |
31. | [ adjective ] in an advanced stage of pregnancy | |
Synonyms: | gravid enceinte expectant great large with_child big | |
Examples: | "was big with child" "was great with child" |
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Related terms: | pregnant | |
32. | [ noun ] (theater) a serious (or tragic) role in a play | |
Related terms: | character | |
Similar spelling: |
Hevey Hevea heave hep |