heavy

Plural: heavies, heavys

Noun

• A villain or a serious character in a play; a powerful person.
• an actor who plays villainous roles
• a serious (or tragic) role in a play
• A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
• A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
• A prominent figure; a "major player".
• A newspaper of the quality press.
• A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
• A serious theatrical role.
• A member of the heavy cavalry.

Adjective

• Of great weight; difficult to lift or move; intense.
• of comparatively great physical weight or density
  • "a heavy load"
  • "lead is a heavy metal"
  • "heavy mahogany furniture"
• unusually great in degree or quantity or number
  • "heavy taxes"
  • "a heavy fine"
  • "heavy casualties"
  • "heavy losses"
  • "heavy rain"
  • "heavy traffic"
• 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"
• 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 great intensity or power or force
  • "a heavy blow"
  • "the fighting was heavy"
  • "heavy seas"
• (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
  • "heavy hydrogen"
  • "heavy water"

Adjective Satellite

• usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
• (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
  • "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
• darkened by clouds
  • "a heavy sky"
• (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
  • "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"
• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
  • "heavy fog"
• of relatively large extent and density
  • "a heavy line"
• made of fabric having considerable thickness
  • "a heavy coat"
• prodigious
  • "heavy investor"
• full and loud and deep
  • "heavy sounds"
• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
  • "heavy matters of state"
• slow and laborious because of weight
  • "the heavy tread of tired troops"
• large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
  • "a heavy truck"
  • "heavy machinery"
• dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
  • "a heavy pudding"
• sharply inclined
  • "a heavy grade"
• full of; bearing great weight
  • "trees heavy with fruit"
• requiring or showing effort
  • "heavy breathing"
• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
  • "heavy work"
  • "heavy going"
• lacking lightness or liveliness
  • "heavy humor"
• (of sleep) deep and complete
  • "a heavy sleep"
• in an advanced stage of pregnancy

Adverb

• slowly as if burdened by much weight
  • "time hung heavy on their hands"

Adj

• Having great weight.
• Serious, somber.
• Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
• Good.
• Profound.
• High, great.
• Armed.
• Loud, distorted, or intense.
• Hot and humid.
• Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
• With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
• High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
• Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
• Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
• Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
• Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
• Not raised or leavened.
• Having much body or strength.
• With child; pregnant.
• Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
• Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
• Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
• Heavily-armed.
• Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
• Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
• Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
• Having the heaves.

Adv

• In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
• To a great degree; greatly.
• very

Verb

• To make heavier.
• To sadden.
• To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

Examples

• A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
• a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
• a heavy writer or book
• Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.
• Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.
• Come heavy, or not at all.
• He always saved his high-scoring Z tile to play as a HEAVY hitter at the end of the game.
• He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.
• heavy bread
• heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
• Her tile rack felt HEAVY with too many consonants, making word formation a challenge.
• his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child
• it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch
• Metal is heavier than rock.
• The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.
• They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.
• This film is heavy.
• Use the scales to measure how heavy it is.
• With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.

Synonyms

arduous, backbreaking, big, clayey, cloggy, dense, enceinte, expectant, fleshy, grave, gravid, great, grievous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavily, impenetrable, intemperate, labored, laborious, laboured, large, leaden, lowering, lumbering, operose, overweight, ponderous, profound, punishing, sonorous, sound, sullen, threatening, toilsome, wakeless, weighed down, weighty, with child, swear, sweer

Antonyms

light

Related Words

heave, heavy cake, heft, HEAVILY

Anagrams of heavy