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Definition of Heavy
1. Noun. An actor who plays villainous roles.
2. Adjective. Of comparatively great physical weight or density. "Heavy mahogany furniture"
Similar to: Dense, Doughy, Soggy, Heavier-than-air, Hefty, Massive, Non-buoyant, Ponderous
Derivative terms: Heaviness
Antonyms: Light
3. Adverb. Slowly as if burdened by much weight. "Time hung heavy on their hands"
4. Noun. A serious (or tragic) role in a play.
5. Adjective. Unusually great in degree or quantity or number. "Heavy traffic"
6. Adjective. Of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment. "Heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries"
7. Adjective. Marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness. "Heavy eyelids"
Derivative terms: Heaviness
Antonyms: Light
8. Adjective. Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it.
Similar to: Fat
Derivative terms: Fleshiness, Heaviness, Overweight
9. Adjective. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained. "The clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
10. Adjective. Darkened by clouds. "A heavy sky"
11. Adjective. Of great intensity or power or force. "Heavy seas"
12. Adjective. (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight. "Heavy water"
13. Adjective. (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain. "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"
14. Adjective. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. "Impenetrable gloom"
15. Adjective. Of relatively large extent and density. "A heavy line"
16. Adjective. Made of fabric having considerable thickness. "A heavy coat"
17. Adjective. Prodigious. "Heavy investor"
18. Adjective. Full and loud and deep. "A herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
19. Adjective. Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors. "A hard drinker"
Similar to: Indulgent
Derivative terms: Intemperateness, Intemperateness
20. Adjective. Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought. "The weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
Similar to: Important, Of Import
Derivative terms: Graveness, Gravity, Weight, Weightiness
21. Adjective. Slow and laborious because of weight. "A ponderous yawn"
22. Adjective. Large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work. "Heavy machinery"
23. Adjective. Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal. "A heavy pudding"
24. Adjective. Sharply inclined. "A heavy grade"
25. Adjective. Full of; bearing great weight. "Vines weighed down with grapes"
26. Adjective. Requiring or showing effort. "The subject made for labored reading"
27. Adjective. Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. "Set a punishing pace"
Similar to: Effortful
Derivative terms: Arduousness, Hardness, Heaviness, Labor, Laboriousness, Operoseness, Toilsomeness
28. Adjective. Lacking lightness or liveliness. "A leaden conversation"
29. Adjective. (of sleep) deep and complete. "Deep wakeless sleep"
30. Adjective. In an advanced stage of pregnancy. "Was great with child"
Similar to: Pregnant
Derivative terms: Expect, Expect, Gravidity, Gravidness, Largeness
Definition of Heavy
1. a. Having the heaves.
2. a. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.
3. adv. Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.
4. v. t. To make heavy.
Definition of Heavy
1. having much weight [adj HEAVIER, HEAVIEST] : HEAVILY [adv] / a villain [n HEAVIES] - See also: villain
Medical Definition of Heavy
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1. Heaved or lifted with labour; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.
2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc. "The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod." (1 Sam. V. 6) "The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make." (Shak) "Sent hither to impart the heavy news." (Wordsworth) "Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence." (Shak)
3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment. "The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were." (Chapman) "A light wife doth make a heavy husband." (Shak)
4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. "Whilst the heavy plowman snores." (Shak) "Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind." (Dryden) "Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear." (Is. Lix. 1)
5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.
6. Loud; deep; said of sound; as, heavy thunder. "But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more." (Byron)
7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; said of the sky.
8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.
9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.
10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; said of food.
11. Having much body or strength; said of wines, or other liquors.
12. With child; pregnant. Heavy artillery.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavy
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