1. (noun)heavy an actor who plays villainous roles
2. (noun)heavy a serious (or tragic) role in a play
3. (adj)heavy of comparatively great physical weight or density "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture"
4. (adj)heavy unusually great in degree or quantity or number "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"
5. (adj)heavy 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"
6. (adj)heavy 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"
7. (adj)fleshy, heavy, overweight usually describes a largeperson who is fat but has a largeframe to carry it
8. (adj)clayey, cloggy, heavy (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
"the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
9. (adj)heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening darkened by clouds
"a heavy sky"
10. (adj)heavy of greatintensity or power or force "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"
11. (adj)heavy (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water"
12. (adj)heavy (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"
13. (adj)dense, heavy, impenetrable permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
17. (adj)heavy, sonorous full and loud and deep "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
18. (adj)intemperate, hard, heavy given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
"a hard drinker"
19. (adj)grave, grievous, heavy, weighty of greatgravity 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"
20. (adj)heavy, lumbering, ponderous 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"
21. (adj)heavy large and powerful; especially designed for heavyloads or roughwork "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"
22. (adj)heavy dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to causedistress in the alimentary canal "a heavy pudding"
23. (adj)heavy sharply inclined
"a heavy grade"
24. (adj)heavy, weighed down full of; bearinggreatweight "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"
25. (adj)heavy, labored, laboured requiring or showingeffort "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
26. (adj)arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome 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"
27. (adj)heavy, leaden lacking lightness or liveliness "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"
28. (adj)heavy, profound, sound, wakeless (of sleep) deep and complete
"a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
29. (adj)big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p) in an advanced stage of pregnancy "was big with child"; "was great with child"
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