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heavy
adjective
- of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture"
Antonyms: light Similar: dense, doughy, soggy, heavyweight, hefty, heavier-than-air, massive, middleweight, ponderous - unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"
Antonyms: light Similar: harsh, thick - 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 a
Antonyms: light - having or suggesting a viscous consistency; "heavy cream"
Similar: thick - wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark"
Synonyms: thick Similar: wide, broad - 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"
Antonyms: light Similar: burdensome, onerous, taxing, distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying, leaden, weighted, oppressive, weighty - usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
Synonyms: fleshy, overweight Similar: fat - (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
Synonyms: clayey, cloggy Similar: compact - darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"
Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening Similar: cloudy - of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"
Antonyms: light Similar: big - (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water"
Antonyms: light - (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello''"
Similar: wicked - permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
Synonyms: dense, impenetrable Similar: thick - made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat"
Similar: thick - of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"
Synonyms: hard Similar: intemperate - prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
Synonyms: big Similar: intemperate - used of syllables or musical beats
Synonyms: accented, strong Similar: stressed - full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
Synonyms: sonorous Similar: full - of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "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"
Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty Similar: important, of import - slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous Similar: heavy-footed - large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"
Similar: heavy-duty - dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding"
Similar: indigestible - sharply inclined; "a heavy grade"
Similar: steep - full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"
Synonyms: weighed down Similar: full - requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
Synonyms: labored, laboured Similar: effortful - characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "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
Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, punishing, toilsome Similar: effortful - lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"
Synonyms: leaden Similar: dull - (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless Similar: deep - in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"
Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child Similar: pregnant
noun
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
adverb
- slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands"
Synonyms: heavily
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