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(hĕv'ē) 
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
Heavily: The snow is falling heavier tonight than last night.
n., pl., -ies.
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
- Having relatively great weight: a heavy load.
- Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.
- Large, as in number or quantity: a heavy turnout; heavy casualties.
- Large in yield or output: heavy rainfall.
- Of great intensity: heavy activity; heavy fighting.
- Having great power or force: a heavy punch.
- Violent; rough: heavy seas.
- Equipped with massive armaments and weapons: a heavy cruiser; heavy infantry.
- Large enough to fire powerful shells: heavy guns.
- Indulging to a great degree: a heavy drinker.
- Involved or participating on a large scale: a heavy investor.
- Of great import or seriousness; grave: heavy matters of state.
- Having considerable thickness: a heavy coat.
- Broad or coarse: drew the face with heavy lines.
- Dense; thick: a heavy fog.
- Slow to dissipate; strong: "There was a heavy fragrance of flowers and lemon trees" (Mario Puzo).
- Too dense or rich to digest easily: a heavy dessert.
- Insufficiently leavened: heavy bread.
- Full of clay and readily saturated: heavy soil.
- Weighed down; burdened: trees heavy with plums.
- Emotionally weighed down; despondent: a heavy heart.
- Marked by or exhibiting weariness: heavy lids.
- Sad or painful: heavy news.
- Hard to do or accomplish; arduous: heavy going; heavy reading.
- Not easily borne; oppressive: heavy taxes.
- Lacking vitality; deficient in vivacity or grace: a heavy gait; heavy humor.
- Sharply inclined; steep: a heavy grade.
- Having a large capacity or designed for rough work: a heavy truck.
- Of, relating to, or involving the large-scale production of basic products, such as steel: heavy industry.
- Of or relating to a serious dramatic role.
- Physics. Of or relating to an isotope with an atomic mass greater than the average mass of that element.
- Loud; sonorous: a heavy sound; heavy breathing.
- Linguistics. Of, relating to, or being a syllable ending in a long vowel or in a vowel plus two consonants.
- Slang.
- Of great significance or profundity.
- Very popular or important: a rock star who is really heavy.
Heavily: The snow is falling heavier tonight than last night.
n., pl., -ies.
- A serious or tragic role in a play.
- An actor playing such a role.
- Slang. A villain in a story or play.
- Slang. A mobster.
- Slang. One that is very important or influential: a media heavy.
[Middle English hevi, from Old English hefig.]
heaviness heav'i·ness n.SYNONYMS heavy, weighty, hefty, massive, ponderous, cumbersome. These adjectives mean having a relatively great weight. Heavy refers to what has great physical weight (a heavy boulder) and figuratively to what is burdensome or oppressive to the spirit (heavy responsibilities). Weighty literally denotes having considerable weight (a weighty package); figuratively, it describes what is onerous, serious, or important (a weighty decision). Hefty refers principally to physical heaviness or brawniness: a hefty book; a tall, hefty wrestler. Massive describes what is bulky, heavy, solid, and strong: massive marble columns. Ponderous refers to what has great mass and weight and usually implies unwieldiness: ponderous prehistoric beasts. Figuratively it describes what is complicated, involved, or lacking in grace: a book with a ponderous plot. Something cumbersome is difficult to move, handle, or deal with because it is heavy, bulky, or clumsy: cumbersome luggage.
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adjective
- Having a relatively great weight: heavyweight, hefty, massive, ponderous, weighty. See heavy/light.
- Unwieldy or clumsy, especially due to excess weight: cumbersome, cumbrous, lumpish, lumpy, ponderous. See easy/hard, heavy/light.
- Having a large body, especially in girth: bulky, hefty, hulking, hulky, husky2, stout. See big/small/amount.
- Characterized by abundance: abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, generous, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, substantial, voluminous. See big/small/amount, give/take/reciprocity, rich/poor.
- Intensely sustained, especially in activity: concentrated, fierce, heightened, intense, intensive. See strong/weak.
- Conveying great physical force: hard, hefty, powerful, severe. See big/small/amount.
- Intensely violent in sustained velocity: fierce, furious, high, strong. See strong/weak.
- Violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms: dirty, raging, roiled, roily, rough, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, ugly, violent, wild. See calm/agitation.
- Indulging in drink to an excessive degree: hard. Informal two-fisted. See excess/insufficiency/enough.
- Having great consequence or weight: earnest1, grave2, momentous, serious, severe, weighty. See important/unimportant.
- Having a dense or viscous consistency: gelatinous, stodgy, thick. See solid/liquid/consistency.
- Not readily digested because of richness: rich. See ingestion.
- Growing profusely: dense, lush1, luxuriant, profuse, rank2, thick. See big/small/amount.
- Burdened by a weighty load: heavy-laden, laden, loaded. See full/empty/capacity.
- Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See heavy/light.
- Beyond the understanding of an average mind: abstruse, deep, esoteric, profound, recondite. See easy/hard, surface/depth.
noun
- A mean, worthless character in a story or play: villain. See right/wrong.
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Idioms beginning with heavy:
heavy hitter
See also hot and heavy; make heavy weather of; play the heavy; time hangs heavy.
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heavy
adj
Definition: depressed, gloomy
Antonyms: cheerful, gay, happy, joyful
adj
Definition: difficult, severe
Antonyms: easy, inconsequential, insignificant, trivial, unimportant
adj
Definition: having great weight
Antonyms: airy, light, lightweight, little, slight, small, thin
adj
Definition: listless, slow
Antonyms: animated, energetic, light, moving, smooth
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adj. heavier, heaviest 1. of or containing atoms of an isotope of greater than the usual mass.
2. (of ground or soil) hard to travel over because muddy or full of clay.
3. slang (of a large aircraft) leaving a large amount of turbulence behind in its flight.
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A term used to describe a futures market showing difficulty in advancing or a tendency to decline.
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A heavy market will usually show slight declines and very few rises in price. This type of market is generally unfavorable for speculators attempting to capitalize on predictions of price movements.
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IN BRIEF: Having great weight. Also: Thick.
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sign description: Both open hands with palms up, drop down in front of the body.
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noun, Scottish
1: A particular type of bitter beer. (1823 —) .
Independent Bob Sutherland swigs his fifth pint of 'heavy', knocks it back with a rum chaser (1991).adjective
2: orig in jazz and pop music, used in various senses to designate something profound, serious, etc. (1937 —) .
Blesh & Janis Victory Rag, a 'heavy' number of great difficulty, went on the market in 1921 (1958) ;
It The Bournemouth drug squad (reputed to be one of the heaviest squads in the country) (1971).
noun, Scottish
1: A particular type of bitter beer. (1823 —) .
Independent Bob Sutherland swigs his fifth pint of 'heavy', knocks it back with a rum chaser (1991).
2: orig in jazz and pop music, used in various senses to designate something profound, serious, etc. (1937 —) .
Blesh & Janis Victory Rag, a 'heavy' number of great difficulty, went on the market in 1921 (1958) ;
It The Bournemouth drug squad (reputed to be one of the heaviest squads in the country) (1971).
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(in physics) of more than the usual mass. Compare light (def. 2).
| heat-stable, heat-shock response element, heat-shock regulatory element | |
| heavy atom, heavy chain, heavy hydrogen |
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Having great weight.
- h. chain — see heavy chain.
- h. chain switch — see class switching.
- h. grain feeding — feeding of cereal grain feeds at levels in excess of conventional practice is frequently followed by carbohydrate engorgement, rumenitis and hepatic abscessation. Persistent feeding at levels less than those conducive to lactic acidosis is thought to contribute to the development of left displacement of the abomasum.
- h. horse breeds — includes clydesdale, shire, suffolk horse, belgian, percheron.
- h. metals — lead, mercury, silver, zinc, copper, arsenic, iron.
- h. veal calves — fed on hard feed, weigh >400 lb (182 kg), aged >3 weeks. Called also western veal calves.
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categories related to 'heavy'
- Large, tall, or fat
- Actors, Characters, and Theater People - heavy: villain
- Movie People and Show Business - heavy: male villain
- Strong, Bold, or Tough
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Heavy may refer to:
- A concept of weight
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Music
- "Heavy" (song), a 1999 song by Collective Soul from the album Dosage
- Heavy (Iron Butterfly album), the first album by the band Iron Butterfly
- Heavy (Heavy D album), 1999
- Heavy (Swollen Members album), a 2003 album by Swollen Members
- The Heavy (band), a rock band purportedly from England
- Heavy metal music, a music style
- "Heavy" (Lauri Ylönen song), 2011
Film and television
- "Heavey" (House), a 2005 episode of the television series House
- Heavy (film), a 1995 drama film
- Heavy: The Story of Metal, a four part documentary special that aired on VH1 in 2006
- Heavy (TV series), reality show on A&E that chronicles extreme weight loss
Other
- Heavy (aviation), a term used by pilots and air-traffic controllers
- A type of strength of Scottish beer
- A class in Team Fortress, and Team Fortress 2
- Heavy infantry
- Heavy cavalry
- Heavy artillery
- Heavy metal (chemistry), a member of a loosely-defined subset of elements that exhibit metallic properties
- Heavy.com, an entertainment website
- Heavy D (1967–2011), popular late 1980s and 90s hip hop producer Dwight Myers
- Heavy or villain, the villain or antagonist, within a story i.e. in, a book, play, motion picture or television
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Heavy
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - tung, solid stor, stærk, kraftig, heftig, omfattende, tungtvejende, tyngende
n. - stor bølle, skurk, tung dreng, seriøs morgenavis
adv. - tungt
idioms:
- heavily armed svært bevæbnet
- heavy duty tung pligt
- heavy going tungt føre
- heavy industry sværindustri, tung industri
- heavy metal heavy metal (mus), tungt skyts, tungmetal
- heavy on trykke, tynge
- heavy sea voldsom søgang
- heavy sleeper en der sover tungt
- heavy water tungt vand
Nederlands (Dutch)
zwaar, zwaarlijvig, erg, wellustig, machtig (eten), zwaarwegend, verzwaard, moeizaam, van groot belang, zwaar op de hand, loom, slaperig, saai, onhandig, zwaar geschut, zwaargewicht, liefje, acteur van serieuze rollen, overmatig, zwaar-
Français (French)
adj. - (gén, Phys) lourd, gros, épais, (fig) pesant, lourd, laborieux, dense, nourri, abondant (un saignement), important (un investissement), qui a la main lourde sur, qui consomme beaucoup de (essence), qui comporte beaucoup de, lourd (une défaite, des pertes), intense (une attaque), sévère (une amende, une peine), fort (des critiques), gros (un froid), prononcé (un accent), fort (un parfum), (Météo) fort (une pluie), abondant (la neige), nuageux, chargé (un ciel), (Culin) lourd (un repas), chargé (un emploi du temps), ardu (un livre), qui est chargé de (atmosphère, air), lourd de sens (une remarque)
n. - gorille, grosse brute, (GB) grand journal, journal sérieux
adv. - lourdement, à pas pesants, profondément, bruyamment, péniblement, de manière exemplaire (une punition), très fort (une pluie), beaucoup, abondamment, grandement, fortement, très maquillé, s'adonnant à (la musique, le sport)
idioms:
- heavily armed armé jusqu'aux dents
- heavy duty à usage industriel, à haute résistance
- heavy going être difficile
- heavy industry industrie lourde
- heavy metal métal lourd, (Mus) hard rock
- heavy on peser sur, consommer beaucoup de
- heavy sea mer très agitée
- heavy sleeper gros dormeur
- heavy water eau lourde
Deutsch (German)
adj. - schwer, bedeckt, schwerfällig, grob, ernst, streng
n. - Schlägertyp, (ugs.) Starkbier, schweres Geschütz, Gauner
adv. - schwer, schwerfällig
idioms:
- heavily armed schwerbewaffnet
- heavy duty strapazierfähig, hoch besteuert
- heavy going schwerfallen
- heavy industry Schwerindustrie
- heavy metal Schwermetall, (Mus.) Heavy Metal
- heavy on viel benutzen von
- heavy sea schwere See
- heavy sleeper Person, die tief schläft
- heavy water (chem.) schweres Wasser, Deuteriumoxyd
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - βαρύς, δύσβατος, δύσκολος, φουρτουνιασμένος, άφθονος, σοβαρός
n. - (καθομ.) κακοποιός, μπράβος, κάθαρμα, προσωπικότητα, μεγαλουσιάνος, ρόλος κακού (σε κινηματογραφικό κ.λπ. έργο)
adv. - βαριά, βαρυ-
idioms:
- heavily armed βαριά οπλισμένος
- heavy duty (μηχαν.) ενισχυμένος, βαριάς κατασκευής, μεγάλης αποδόσεως
- heavy going δύσκολα τα πράγματα, αναποδιές
- heavy industry βαριά βιομηχανία
- heavy metal βαρύ μέταλλο, (μουσ.) σκληρή ροκ (κν. χέβι μέταλ)
- heavy on σπάταλος σε
- heavy sea φουρτουνιασμένη/τρικυμιώδης θάλασσα
- heavy sleeper αυτό που κοιμάται βαριά
- heavy water (φυσ.) βαρύ ύδωρ
Italiano (Italian)
pesante, corpulento, buttafuori, pesantemente
idioms:
- heavy duty (adatto) per un uso continuo
- heavy industry industria pesante
- heavy metal metallo pesante
- heavy on gravoso su
- heavy sea mare grosso
- heavy sleeper persona dal sonno duro
- heavy water acqua pesante
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - pesado, difícil
n. - pessoa (f) muito pesada
adv. - pesadamente, dificilmente
idioms:
- heavy duty serviço (m) pesado
- heavy industry indústria (f) pesada (básica)
- heavy metal música (f) de rock muito alta e destorcida (Mús.)
- heavy on exagerado
- heavy sea mar (m) violento, difícil
- heavy sleeper dorminhoco (difícil de acordar)
- heavy water água (f) pesada (Quím.)
Русский (Russian)
тяжелый, крупный, мощный, большой, обильный, трудный, тяжело, тягостно
idioms:
- heavy duty сверхпрочный, сверхмощный
- heavy industry тяжелая индустрия
- heavy metal человек, обладающий высокими моральными качествами
- heavy on придавать большое значение чему-л.
- heavy sea тяжелое и опасное положение
- heavy sleeper тот, кого тяжело разбудить
- heavy water тяжелая вода
Español (Spanish)
adj. - corpulento, obeso, pesado, opresivo, gran cantidad de, muy turbulento, profundo, intenso
n. - forzudo, matón, lo más importante, el villano de una obra, arma de fuego de gran calibre
adv. - pesadamente
idioms:
- heavily armed armado hasta los dientes
- heavy duty para trabajos duros, para grandes cargas
- heavy going pesado para tratar, hacérsele difícil a, hacérsele duro a
- heavy industry industria pesada
- heavy metal música rock de alto volumen y ritmo rápido
- heavy on mucha cantidad de
- heavy sea mar turbulento
- heavy sleeper tener el sueño profundo
- heavy water agua pesada
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - tung, stor, svår, kraftig, brant, gravid, dyster, sömnig, olaglig, schysst, djupsinnig, framstående, jobbig
n. - skurkroll, slagskepp, tungviktsboxare, starköl (Sk.), person som lägger hinder i vägen för ngn annan
adv. - tungt
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
重的, 沉重的, 巨大的, 重物, 严肃角色, 沉重地, 大量地, 笨重地
idioms:
- heavily armed 全副武装
- heavy duty 重型的, 重负荷的, 关税重的, 厚重耐穿的
- heavy going 某事进行艰难, 某人很难了解应付
- heavy industry 重工业
- heavy metal 重金属, 强敌
- heavy on 严厉的..., 大量耗用的...
- heavy sea 波涛汹涌的海面
- heavy sleeper 睡得很沉
- heavy water 重水
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 重的, 沈重的, 巨大的
n. - 重物, 嚴肅角色
adv. - 沈重地, 大量地, 笨重地
idioms:
- heavily armed 全副武裝
- heavy duty 重型的, 重負荷的, 關稅重的, 厚重耐穿的
- heavy going 某事進行艱難, 某人很難了解應付
- heavy industry 重工業
- heavy metal 重金屬, 強敵
- heavy on 嚴厲的..., 大量耗用的...
- heavy sea 波濤洶涌的海面
- heavy sleeper 睡得很沉
- heavy water 重水
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 무거운, 답답한, 대량의, 힘겨운, 서투른
n. - 무거운 물건, 악역, 중기병, 중포
adv. - 무겁게, 답답하게, 심하게
idioms:
- heavy on (보통은 안 좋은 것에 대해) ~을 많이 사용하다
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 重い, 激しい, 大量の, 悲しい, 陰気な, つらい, 重大な, 不器用な, しつこい, 猛烈な, 厳しい
n. - まじめな役, 敵役
idioms:
- be heavy going for 進みにくい
- heavy duty 激務に耐えうる
- heavy industry 重工業
- heavy metal 重金属, 重砲, ヘビーメタル, 強敵
- heavy on 大量に消費する, 強い
- heavy sea 荒海
- heavy sleeper よく寝る人
- heavy water 重水
- make heavy weather of 大げさに考える
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) ثقيل أو كبير الوزن, ثقيل الوطأة, خطير, عميق, بطئ, بليد, كئيب, نعسان أو مجهد, ضخم أو وافر, كثيف, هائج, موحل, حاد, شاق أو عسير, مسرف, عسير الهضم, جدي أو رصين (الاسم) ملاكم من الوزن الثقيل, ممثل يؤدي دورا رصينا أو شريرا (ظرف) على نحو ثقيل
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - כבד, קשה, מגושם, גס, איטי בתפיסתו השכלית, קשה למעבר (שטח), דורשת מאמץ רב (עבודה), שופע (יבול), חמור ורציני או משעמם (נאום), קשה לעיכול
n. - בריון, תפקיד טרגי או תפקיד של נבל (במחזה), בירה לבנה (מדוברת)
adv. - בכבדות
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