noun
an actor who plays villainous roles
noun
a serious (or tragic) role in a play
adjective
of comparatively great physical weight or density
Examples
- a heavy load
- lead is a heavy metal
- heavy mahogany furniture
adjective
unusually great in degree or quantity or number
Examples
- heavy taxes
- a heavy fine
- heavy casualties
- heavy losses
- heavy rain
- heavy traffic
adjective
of the military or industry
Examples
- 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
adjective
marked by great psychological weight
Examples
- weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- a heavy heart
- a heavy schedule
- heavy news
- a heavy silence
- 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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Examples
- the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
adjective
darkened by clouds
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- a heavy sky
adjective
of great intensity or power or force
Examples
- a heavy blow
- the fighting was heavy
- heavy seas
adjective
(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
Examples
- heavy hydrogen
- heavy water
adjective
(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
Examples
- Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
adjective
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
Synonyms
Examples
- dense smoke
- heavy fog
- impenetrable gloom
adjective
of relatively large extent and density
Examples
- a heavy line
adjective
made of fabric having considerable thickness
Examples
- a heavy coat
adjective
prodigious
Synonyms
big(a)
heavy(a)
Examples
- big spender
- big eater
- heavy investor
adjective
full and loud and deep
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Examples
- heavy sounds
- a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
adjective
given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
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Examples
- a hard drinker
adjective
of great gravity or crucial import
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- 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
adjective
slow and laborious because of weight
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Examples
- the heavy tread of tired troops
- moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
- ponderous prehistoric beasts
- a ponderous yawn
adjective
large and powerful
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- especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- a heavy truck
- heavy machinery
adjective
dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
Examples
- a heavy pudding
adjective
sharply inclined
Examples
- a heavy grade
adjective
full of
Synonyms
weighed down
Examples
- bearing great weight
- trees heavy with fruit
- vines weighed down with grapes
adjective
requiring or showing effort
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Examples
- heavy breathing
- the subject made for labored reading
adjective
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
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Examples
- 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 punishing pace
adjective
lacking lightness or liveliness
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Examples
- heavy humor
- a leaden conversation
adjective
(of sleep) deep and complete
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Examples
- a heavy sleep
- fell into a profound sleep
- a sound sleeper
- deep wakeless sleep
adjective
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
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Examples
- was big with child
- was great with child
adverb
slowly as if burdened by much weight
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Examples
- time hung heavy on their hands