heavy Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun an actor who plays villainous roles
   
2. noun a serious (or tragic) role in a play
   
3. adjective of comparatively great physical weight or density
   
   • a heavy load
   • lead is a heavy metal
   • heavy mahogany furniture
4. adjective unusually great in degree or quantity or number
   
   • heavy taxes
   • a heavy fine
   • heavy casualties
   • heavy losses
   • heavy rain
   • heavy traffic
5. adjective 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. adjective 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. adjective satellite usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
   fleshy; overweight.
   
8. adjective satellite (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
   cloggy; clayey.
   
   • the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
9. adjective satellite darkened by clouds
   lowering; sullen; threatening.
   
   • a heavy sky
10. adjective of great intensity or power or force
    
    • a heavy blow
    • the fighting was heavy
    • heavy seas
11. adjective (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
    
    • heavy hydrogen
    • heavy water
12. adjective satellite (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
    
    • Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
13. adjective satellite permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
    dense; impenetrable.
    
    • dense smoke
    • heavy fog
    • impenetrable gloom
14. adjective satellite of relatively large extent and density
    
    • a heavy line
15. adjective satellite made of fabric having considerable thickness
    
    • a heavy coat
16. adjective satellite prodigious
    big.
    
    • big spender
    • big eater
    • heavy investor
17. adjective satellite full and loud and deep
    sonorous.
    
    • heavy sounds
    • a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
18. adjective satellite given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
    intemperate; hard.
    
    • a hard drinker
19. adjective satellite of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
    grievous; weighty; grave.
    
    • 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. adjective satellite slow and laborious because of weight
    lumbering; ponderous.
    
    • the heavy tread of tired troops
    • moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
    • ponderous prehistoric beasts
    • a ponderous yawn
21. adjective satellite large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
    
    • a heavy truck
    • heavy machinery
22. adjective satellite dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
    
    • a heavy pudding
23. adjective satellite sharply inclined
    
    • a heavy grade
24. adjective satellite full of; bearing great weight
    weighed down.
    
    • trees heavy with fruit
    • vines weighed down with grapes
25. adjective satellite requiring or showing effort
    labored; laboured.
    
    • heavy breathing
    • the subject made for labored reading
26. adjective satellite characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
    toilsome; grueling; punishing; operose; backbreaking; hard; arduous; gruelling; laborious.
    
    • 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. adjective satellite lacking lightness or liveliness
    leaden.
    
    • heavy humor
    • a leaden conversation
28. adjective satellite (of sleep) deep and complete
    sound; wakeless; profound.
    
    • a heavy sleep
    • fell into a profound sleep
    • a sound sleeper
    • deep wakeless sleep
29. adjective satellite in an advanced stage of pregnancy
    great; with child; gravid; big; enceinte; expectant; large.
    
    • was big with child
    • was great with child
30. adverb slowly as if burdened by much weight
    heavily.
    
    • time hung heavy on their hands

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