heavy

Meaning

Adj

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.

Adv

1. In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
2. (colloquial) To a great degree; greatly.
3. (colloquial) very

Noun

1. (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
2. (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
3. A prominent figure; a "major player".
4. (slang) A newspaper of the quality press.
5. A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
6. (slang) A serious theatrical role.
7. A member of the heavy cavalry.

Verb

1. To make heavier.
2. To sadden.
3. (informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

Concepts

heavy

weighty

serious

thick

onerous

hard

ponderous

burdensome

massive

severe

leaden

difficult

big

bulky

arduous

dull

grave

tough

deep

unwieldy

dense

grievous

oppressive

cumbersome

painful

intense

large

lumbering

strong

stodgy

fat

awkward

overweight

laborious

rough

clumsy

laboured

stiff

low

be heavy

challenging

be burdensome

plump

important

cumbrous

gloomy

terrible

strict

fleshy

not light

gravid

great

heavily

lowering

profound

backbreaking

gruelling

toilsome

labored

weighed down

intemperate

pregnant

lumpish

stern

hefty

sad

weight

heavy-duty

become heavy

viscous

harsh

close

solid

active

exacting

formidable

sore

rich

much

awful

cruel

very bad

violent

loaded

ponderable

heavily-laden

enceinte

expectant

with child

sullen

threatening

clayey

cloggy

sound

wakeless

grueling

operose

punishing

sonorous

impenetrable

crushing

gross

slow

three-dimensional

heaviness

very heavy

tiring

stout

weigh

acute

dour

bad

bitter

loud

compact

sober

dirty

heavier

heaviest

trial

assiduous

diligent

hardworking

industrious

bleak

depressing

distressing

dismal

hurtful

miserable

saddening

troublesome

be oppressive

intolerable

unbearable

very thick

oppressed

excessive

extreme

tremendous

importunate

verbose

massive and heavy

greater degree

obese

villain

gigantic

huge

immense

corpulent

portly

stormy

heavily-loaded

become thick

bovine

evildoer

coarse

sleepy

drowsy

sluggish

tedious

uninteresting

repressive

unbending

distressful

sorrowful

heavy-weight

logged

lumping

high

significant

large-scale

silly

stupid

be difficult

be hard

be profound

be weighty

enough

numerous

plenty

beefy

logy

saturnine

waterlogged

load

deadweight

become

hard work

being heavy

laden

of rain

broad

expensive

chunky

beardown

bruising

inclement

nonindulgent

raging

rigorous

searing

smart

swingeing

unsparing

austere

ball-breaker

ball-buster

blistering

brutal

flint

hard-core

hardcore

inexorable

iron

keen

ruffianly

sharp

steely

stone

tall

unforgiving

unmalleable

unrelenting

Black

black

dark

sable

bad guy

baddie

unmanageable

unportable

soupy

clouded

cloudy

rugged

torrential

straining

strenuous

tiresome

vexing

drudging

laboring

labouring

plodding

toiling

weighted

heavy-limbed

heavyset

intimate

utter

aflame

filled

full

jammed

over

packed

replete

riddled

stuffed

concise

sealed

sententious

serried

tight

tight-knit

tightly knit

bearing

firm

hearty

steady

stocky

sturdy

substantial

supporting

Byzantine

sesquipedalian

troublous

unfriendly

unpronounceable

unutterable

major

no-nonsense

solemn

sombre

animated

brisk

bubbly

busy

lively

sparkly

spirited

able

athletic

concentrated

cordial

exquisite

forceful

mighty

orotund

potent

powerful

puissant

racy

red-blooded

robust

antagonist

steep

lumbersome

noisy

worried

wrung

full of water

soaked

wet

soulful

worse

crude oil

indigestible

warm

heavy-load

heinous

critical

trouble

durable

make heavy

still

thicker

dig

spade

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhɛv.i/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

Their work made heavy use of improvised dialogue .

The slab was hewn from heavy blocks of slate .