What is the meaning of the word "heavy"?
Definitions:
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(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain adjective
- Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
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(of sleep) deep and complete adjective
- a heavy sleep
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(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight adjective
- heavy hydrogen
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(used of soil) compact and fine-grained adjective
- the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
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darkened by clouds adjective
- a heavy sky
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dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal adjective
- a heavy pudding
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full and loud and deep adjective
- heavy sounds
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lacking lightness or liveliness adjective
- heavy humor
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large and powerful adjective
- especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
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made of fabric having considerable thickness adjective
- a heavy coat
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of comparatively great physical weight or density adjective
- a heavy load
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of great intensity or power or force adjective
- a heavy blow
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of relatively large extent and density adjective
- a heavy line
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requiring or showing effort adjective
- heavy breathing
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sharply inclined adjective
- a heavy grade
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slow and laborious because of weight adjective
- the heavy tread of tired troops
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slowly as if burdened by much weight adverb
- time hung heavy on their hands
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unusually great in degree or quantity or number adjective
- heavy taxes
Synonyms:
- big
- clayey
- cloggy
- dense
- fleshy
- grave
- grievous
- hard
- heavily
- impenetrable
- labored
- laboured
- leaden
- light
- lowering
- overweight
- ponderous
- profound
- sonorous
- sound
- sullen
- threatening
- wakeless
- weighed down
- weighty