heavy
1. [ adjective ] of comparatively great physical weight or density
Examples:

"a heavy load" "lead is a heavy metal" "heavy mahogany furniture"

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"

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"

Related terms: light
4. [ adjective ] having or suggesting a viscous consistency
Examples:

"heavy cream"

Related terms: thick
5. [ adjective ] wide from side to side
Synonyms: thick
Examples:

"a heavy black mark"

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"

Related terms: light distressing burdensome leaden weighty oppressive
7. [ adjective ] darkened by clouds
Synonyms: sullen lowering threatening
Examples:

"a heavy sky"

Related terms: cloudy
8. [ adjective ] (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
Synonyms: cloggy clayey
Examples:

"the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"

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"

11. [ adjective ] requiring or showing effort
Synonyms: laboured labored
Examples:

"heavy breathing" "the subject made for labored reading"

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"

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"

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"

Related terms: important
15. [ adjective ] full of; bearing great weight
Synonyms: weighed_down
Examples:

"trees heavy with fruit" "vines weighed down with grapes"

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"

Related terms: light chemistry
18. [ adjective ] of great intensity or power or force
Examples:

"a heavy blow" "the fighting was heavy" "heavy seas"

Related terms: light big
19. [ adjective ] sharply inclined
Examples:

"a heavy grade"

Related terms: steep
20. [ adjective ] of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately
Synonyms: hard
Examples:

"does a lot of hard drinking" "a heavy drinker"

Related terms: intemperate
21. [ adjective ] made of fabric having considerable thickness
Examples:

"a heavy coat"

Related terms: thick
22. [ adjective ] full and loud and deep
Synonyms: sonorous
Examples:

"heavy sounds" "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"

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"

Related terms: intemperate
25. [ adjective ] dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
Examples:

"a heavy pudding"

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"

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"

Related terms: thick
28. [ adjective ] (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
Examples:

"Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"

Related terms: wicked
29. [ adjective ] large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
Examples:

"a heavy truck" "heavy machinery"

Related terms: heavy-duty
30. [ adjective ] lacking lightness or liveliness
Synonyms: leaden
Examples:

"heavy humor" "a leaden conversation"

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"

Related terms: pregnant
32. [ noun ] (theater) a serious (or tragic) role in a play
Related terms: character
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