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Heavy

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Definitions for Heavy

noun
an actor who plays villainous roles
noun
a serious (or tragic) role in a play
adjective
of comparatively great physical weight or density
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  1. a heavy load
  2. lead is a heavy metal
  3. heavy mahogany furniture
adjective
unusually great in degree or quantity or number
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  1. heavy taxes
  2. a heavy fine
  3. heavy casualties
  4. heavy losses
  5. heavy rain
  6. heavy traffic
adjective
of the military or industry
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  1. using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
  2. heavy artillery
  3. heavy infantry
  4. a heavy cruiser
  5. heavy guns
  6. heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries
adjective
marked by great psychological weight
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  1. weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
  2. a heavy heart
  3. a heavy schedule
  4. heavy news
  5. a heavy silence
  6. heavy eyelids
adjective
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
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adjective
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained
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  1. the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
adjective
darkened by clouds
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  1. a heavy sky
adjective
of great intensity or power or force
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  1. a heavy blow
  2. the fighting was heavy
  3. heavy seas
adjective
(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
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  1. heavy hydrogen
  2. heavy water
adjective
(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
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  1. Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
adjective
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
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  1. dense smoke
  2. heavy fog
  3. impenetrable gloom
adjective
of relatively large extent and density
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  1. a heavy line
adjective
made of fabric having considerable thickness
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  1. a heavy coat
adjective
prodigious
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big(a) heavy(a)
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  1. big spender
  2. big eater
  3. heavy investor
adjective
full and loud and deep
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  1. heavy sounds
  2. a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
adjective
given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
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  1. a hard drinker
adjective
of great gravity or crucial import
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  1. requiring serious thought
  2. grave responsibilities
  3. faced a grave decision in a time of crisis
  4. a grievous fault
  5. heavy matters of state
  6. the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
adjective
slow and laborious because of weight
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  1. the heavy tread of tired troops
  2. moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
  3. ponderous prehistoric beasts
  4. a ponderous yawn
adjective
large and powerful
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  1. especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
  2. a heavy truck
  3. heavy machinery
adjective
dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
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  1. a heavy pudding
adjective
sharply inclined
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  1. a heavy grade
adjective
full of
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weighed down
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  1. bearing great weight
  2. trees heavy with fruit
  3. vines weighed down with grapes
adjective
requiring or showing effort
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  1. heavy breathing
  2. the subject made for labored reading
adjective
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
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  1. especially physical effort
  2. worked their arduous way up the mining valley
  3. a grueling campaign
  4. hard labor
  5. heavy work
  6. heavy going
  7. spent many laborious hours on the project
  8. set a punishing pace
adjective
lacking lightness or liveliness
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  1. heavy humor
  2. a leaden conversation
adjective
(of sleep) deep and complete
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  1. a heavy sleep
  2. fell into a profound sleep
  3. a sound sleeper
  4. deep wakeless sleep
adjective
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
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big(p) enceinte expectant gravid great(p) large(p) heavy(p) with child(p)
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  1. was big with child
  2. was great with child
adverb
slowly as if burdened by much weight
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  1. time hung heavy on their hands

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