heavy
/'hevi/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Having great weight: Of considerable weight; difficult to lift or move.
- Of great density or thickness: Having a high mass per unit volume; not light or thin.
- Of great intensity, force, or degree: Strong, severe, or considerable in amount or impact.
- Serious or somber in character: Grave, profound, or causing emotional weight.
- Requiring much physical effort: Laborious or arduous.
- Rich or filling in a way that may cause discomfort: Describing food that is dense and difficult to digest.
- Lacking grace or agility: Slow-moving or ponderous.
- Deep and sound: Describing sleep that is profound and not easily disturbed.
- Indulging to excess: Given to overconsumption, especially of alcohol.
Adverb:
- In a heavy manner: With weight or force; slowly and laboriously.
Noun:
- A villainous character: A serious or antagonistic role in a play, film, or story.
- A person of importance or influence: (Informal) A significant or powerful person.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- The box was too heavy for me to lift.
- We drove through heavy rain on the highway.
- The news of his passing put a heavy burden on her heart.
- Digging the trench was heavy work.
- After the rich meal, I felt heavy and sleepy.
Adverb:
- Time hung heavy on his hands during the long wait.
Noun:
- The actor was often cast as the heavy in crime dramas.
Advanced Usage
"heavy on": Using or consuming a large amount of something; strict about.
- This recipe is heavy on garlic.
- The new manager is heavy on discipline.
"heavy with": Full of or laden with.
- The branches were heavy with ripe fruit.
- The air was heavy with the scent of jasmine.
"heavy going": Difficult to understand, make progress through, or deal with.
- I found that philosophy book heavy going.
Variants and Related Words
Heavily (adverb): To a great degree; in a heavy manner.
- It was raining heavily.
- She sighed heavily.
Heaviness (noun): The state or quality of being heavy.
- The heaviness of the suitcase surprised me.
Heavy-duty (adjective): Designed to withstand great strain or hard use.
- We need heavy-duty boots for this construction site.
Heavy-handed (adjective): Clumsy, insensitive, or overly forceful.
- His heavy-handed management style demotivated the team.
Synonyms
- Weighty: Having great weight; serious and important.
- Burdensome: Difficult to carry out or fulfill; oppressive.
- Arduous: Involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.
- Ponderous: Slow and clumsy because of great weight; dull and laborious.
- Intense: Of extreme force, degree, or strength.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Heavy up: To increase the weight, intensity, or amount of something.
- The producers decided to heavy up on the special effects for the finale.
Related Idioms
A heavy heart: A feeling of sadness or sorrow.
- She announced her resignation with a heavy heart.
Make heavy weather of something: To make something seem more difficult or complicated than it really is.
- He's making heavy weather of a simple paperwork task.
Heavy lies the head that wears the crown: People who have great responsibilities also have great worries.
- The CEO looked exhausted, proving that heavy lies the head that wears the crown.
Adjective
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- was big with child
- was great with child
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- a heavy sleep
- fell into a profound sleep
- a sound sleeper
- deep wakeless sleep
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- heavy humor
- a leaden conversation
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- worked their arduous way up the mining valley
- a grueling campaign
- hard labor
- heavy work
- heavy going
- spent many laborious hours on the project
- set a punishing pace
- requiring or showing effort
- heavy breathing
- the subject made for labored reading
- full of; bearing great weight
- trees heavy with fruit
- vines weighed down with grapes
- sharply inclined
- a heavy grade
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- a heavy pudding
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- a heavy truck
- heavy machinery
- slow and laborious because of weight
- the heavy tread of tired troops
- moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
- ponderous prehistoric beasts
- a ponderous yawn
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- 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
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- a hard drinker
- full and loud and deep
- heavy sounds
- a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
- prodigious
- big spender
- big eater
- heavy investor
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- a heavy coat
- of relatively large extent and density
- a heavy line
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- dense smoke
- heavy fog
- impenetrable gloom
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- heavy hydrogen
- heavy water
- of great intensity or power or force
- a heavy blow
- the fighting was heavy
- heavy seas
- darkened by clouds
- a heavy sky
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- a heavy heart
- a heavy schedule
- heavy news
- a heavy silence
- heavy eyelids
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- heavy artillery
- heavy infantry
- a heavy cruiser
- heavy guns
- heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- heavy taxes
- a heavy fine
- heavy casualties
- heavy losses
- heavy rain
- heavy traffic
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- a heavy load
- lead is a heavy metal
- heavy mahogany furniture
Adverb
- slowly as if burdened by much weight
- time hung heavy on their hands
Noun
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- an actor who plays villainous roles