heavy

Meaning

1. Having great weight.
2. Serious, somber.
3. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
4. (slang) Good.
5. Profound.
6. High, great.
7. (slang) Armed.
8. Loud, distorted, or intense.
9. Hot and humid.
10. Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
11. With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
12. High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
13. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
14. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
15. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
16. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
17. Not raised or leavened.
18. Having much body or strength.
19. (obsolete) With child; pregnant.
20. Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
21. Having high viscosity.
22. Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
23. Heavily-armed.
24. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
25. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.

weighty

unwieldy

be heavy

become heavy

be burdensome

not light

heavily-laden

very bad

very heavy

troublous

make heavy

of rain

soupy

be hard

very thick

tightly knit

massive and heavy

greater degree

become thick

lumbersome

be oppressive

heavy-weight

unmalleable

ball-breaker

ball-buster

heavily-loaded

heavy-limbed

nonindulgent

heavy-load

being heavy

be profound

be weighty

beardown

be difficult

full of water

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhɛv.i/

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Cognates: Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), Middle Low German hēvich (“violent, fierce, intense”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).