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Definition of 'heavy'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) heavy
of great weight:
a heavy load.

2.  heavy
of great amount, quantity, or size:
a heavy vote.

3.  heavy
of great force, intensity, or turbulence:
heavy seas.

4.  heavy
of more than the usual or average weight:
a heavy person.

5.  heavy
of high specific gravity:
a heavy metal.

6.  heavy
grave; serious:
a heavy offense.

7.  heavy
profound:
a heavy slumber.

8.  heavy
equipped with weapons of large size.

9.  heavy
(of guns) of the more powerful sizes:
heavy artillery.

10.  heavy
hard to bear; burdensome; oppressive:
heavy taxes.

11.  heavy
hard to cope with; trying; difficult:
a heavy schedule.

12.  heavy
being as indicated to an unusual degree:
a heavy drinker.

13.  heavy
broad, thick, or coarse:
heavy lines; heavy features.

14.  heavy
weighted or laden:
air heavy with moisture.

15.  heavy
fraught; loaded; charged:
words heavy with meaning.

16.  heavy
depressed with trouble or sorrow; sad:
a heavy heart.

17.  heavy
without vivacity or interest; ponderous; dull:
a heavy style.

18.  heavy
slow or labored in movement or action; clumsy; lumbering:
a heavy walk.

19.  heavy
loud and deep; sonorous:
heavy breathing.

20.  heavy
overcast or cloudy; threatening rain.

21.  heavy
thick or dense:
heavy fog.

22.  heavy
(of food) not easily digested.

23.  heavy
capable of doing rough work:
a heavy truck.

24.  heavy
producing or refining basic materials, as steel or coal, used in manufacturing:
heavy industry.

25.  heavy
Informal. possessing or using in large quantities:
heavy on the mascara.

26.  heavy
serious:
a heavy role.

27.  heavy
of or pertaining to an isotope of greater atomic weight than the common isotope.

28.  heavy
of or pertaining to a compound containing such an element.

29.  heavy
(of a syllable in verse)

30.  heavy
stressed.

31.  heavy
long.

32.  heavy
Slang.

33.  heavy
excellent; remarkable.

34.  heavy
very serious or important.

35.  heavy
distressing or threatening.

36. (n.) heavy
a theatrical character or role that is tragic, unsympathetic, or villainous.

37.  heavy
an actor who plays this type of role.

38.  heavy
a gun of great weight or large caliber.

39.  heavy
Slang.

40.  heavy
a very important or influential person.

41.  heavy
a person employed to use violence or coercion.

42. (adv.) heavy
in a heavy manner; heavily.

Definition of 'heavy'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) heavy
an actor who plays villainous roles

2. (adj) 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 large person who is fat but has a large frame 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 great intensity 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"

14. (adj) heavy
of relatively large extent and density
"a heavy line"

15. (adj) heavy
made of fabric having considerable thickness
"a heavy coat"

16. (adj) big(a), heavy(a)
prodigious
"big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"

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 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"

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 heavy loads or rough work
"a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"

22. (adj) heavy
dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
"a heavy pudding"

23. (adj) heavy
sharply inclined
"a heavy grade"

24. (adj) heavy, weighed down
full of; bearing great weight
"trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"

25. (adj) heavy, labored, laboured
requiring or showing effort
"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. (adverb) 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"

30. (adverb) heavy, heavily
slowly as if burdened by much weight
"time hung heavy on their hands"

Definition of 'heavy'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) heavy
≠ light
a heavy box of books; I can't carry you, you're too heavy.

2.  heavy
in larger amounts or having a greater effect than usual
heavy snow/rain/wind; The traffic was heavy in the city.; heavy financial losses; the heavy impact of the storm

3.  heavy
a heavy smoker
sb who smokes a lot

4.  heavy
big or thick
a heavy cotton material; heavy machinery

5.  heavy
using or needing a lot of physical strength
a heavy fall/blow; Bend your knees when doing heavy lifting.

6.  heavy
involving too much serious or unpleasant emotion
The movie was pretty heavy.; the heaviness of the bucket; the topic's heaviness

Definition of 'heavy'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) heavy
having the heaves

2. (adverb) heavy
heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden

3.  heavy
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

4.  heavy
not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc

5.  heavy
laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment

6.  heavy
slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book

7.  heavy
strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like

8.  heavy
loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder

9.  heavy
dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky

10.  heavy
impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like

11.  heavy
not raised or made light; as, heavy bread

12.  heavy
not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food

13.  heavy
having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors

14.  heavy
with child; pregnant

15. (verb) heavy
to make heavy

Definition of 'heavy'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. heavy
161-210mm.

Translation of 'heavy'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: having great weight; difficult to lift or carry a heavy parcel.
Afrikaans: swaar	Arabic: ثَقيل	Bulgarian: тежък
Brazilian: pesado	Czech: těžký	German: schwer
Danish: tung	Greek: βαρύς	Spanish: pesado
Estonian: raske	Farsi: سنگي	Finnish: raskas
French: lourd	Hebrew: כָּבֵד	Hindi: भारी
Croatian: težak	Hungarian: nehéz	Indonesian: berat
Icelandic: þungur	Italian: pesante	Japanese: 重い
Korean: 무거운	Lithuanian: sunkus	Latvian: smags
Malay: berat	Dutch: zwaar	Norwegian: tung, solid, massiv
Polish: ciężki	Persian: سنگين	Pashto: دروند ، تياره ، جدى
Portuguese: pesado	Romanian: greu	Russian: тяжёлый
Slovak: ťažký	Slovenian: težek	Serbian: težak
Swedish: tung	Thai: หนัก	Turkish: ağır
Taiwanese: 沉重的	Ukrainian: важкий	Urdu: وزنی، ثقیل
Vietnamese: nặng nề	Chinese: 沉重的
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