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Adjective
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- fell into a profound sleep
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- worked their arduous way up the mining valley
- spent many laborious hours on the project
- requiring or showing effort
- the subject made for labored reading
- full of; bearing great weight
- vines weighed down with grapes
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- slow and laborious because of weight
- the heavy tread of tired troops
- moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
- ponderous prehistoric beasts
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- faced a grave decision in a time of crisis
- the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- full and loud and deep
- a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- of relatively large extent and density
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- (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
- of great intensity or power or force
- (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
- 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
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
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