heavy

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Synonyms: heave, heady, heauy, seavy, heavey, peavy, leavy, healy, heapy, keavy, heav

Antonyms: heave, heady, heauy, seavy, heavey, peavy, leavy, healy, heapy, keavy, heav

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Adjective

1. Having great weight.
   • Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.
   • Use the scales to measure how heavy it is.
   • When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit.
2. Heavyset: overweight.
   • When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit.
3. Serious, somber.
4. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
   • heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
5. Good.
   • This film is heavy.
6. Profound.
   • The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.
7. High, great.
8. Armed.
   • Come heavy, or not at all.
9. Loud, distorted, or intense.
   • Metal is heavier than rock.
10. Hot and humid.
11. Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
    • This car is too heavy on gas.
    • He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.
12. With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
13. High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
    • Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.
14. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
    • it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch
15. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
    • his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child
16. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
    • a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
    • a heavy writer or book
17. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
    • a heavy road; a heavy soil
18. Not raised or leavened.
    • heavy bread
19. Having much body or strength.
20. With child; pregnant.
21. Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
    • heavy water
22. Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
23. Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
24. Heavily-armed.
25. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload. Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 pounds, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
26. Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 pounds, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.

Adverb

1. In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
   • Heavy-laden with their sins, time hung heavy
2. To a great degree; greatly.
3. very

Noun

1. A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
   • With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
2. A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
   • A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
3. A prominent figure; a "major player".
4. A newspaper of the quality press.
5. A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
6. A serious theatrical role.
7. A member of the heavy cavalry.

Verb

1. To make heavier.
   • They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.
2. To sadden.
   • The tragic event heavied the hearts of many onlookers.
3. To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
   • The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.

Adjective

1. Having the heaves.
   • a heavy horse

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