heavy

phonetic symbol: / hévi / 

heavy - English Dictionary

[ noun ]
■ a serious (or tragic) role in a play

[ noun ]
■ an actor who plays villainous roles

[ adjective satellite ]
■ in an advanced stage of pregnancy
big , enceinte , expectant , gravid , great , large , with child

[ adjective satellite ]
■ darkened by clouds
e.g.)
・a heavy sky
lowering , sullen , threatening

[ adjective satellite ]
■ (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
e.g.)
・the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
clayey , cloggy

[ adjective satellite ]
■ (of sleep) deep and complete
e.g.)
・a heavy sleep
profound , sound , wakeless

[ adjective satellite ]
■ lacking lightness or liveliness
e.g.)
・heavy humor
leaden

[ adjective satellite ]
■ characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
■ especially physical effort
e.g.)
・heavy work
・heavy going
arduous , backbreaking , grueling , gruelling , hard , laborious , operose , punishing , toilsome

[ adjective satellite ]
■ requiring or showing effort
e.g.)
・heavy breathing
labored , laboured

[ adjective satellite ]
■ usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
fleshy , overweight

[ adjective satellite ]
■ full of
■ bearing great weight
e.g.)
・trees heavy with fruit
weighed down

[ adjective satellite ]
■ sharply inclined
e.g.)
・a heavy grade

[ adjective satellite ]
■ dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
e.g.)
・a heavy pudding

[ adjective ]
■ of comparatively great physical weight or density
e.g.)
・a heavy load
・lead is a heavy metal
・heavy mahogany furniture

[ adjective satellite ]
■ large and powerful
■ especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
e.g.)
・a heavy truck
・heavy machinery

[ adjective ]
■ marked by great psychological weight
■ weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
e.g.)
・a heavy heart
・a heavy schedule
・heavy news
・a heavy silence
・heavy eyelids

[ adjective ]
■ unusually great in degree or quantity or number
e.g.)
・heavy taxes
・a heavy fine
・heavy casualties
・heavy losses
・heavy rain
・heavy traffic

[ adjective ]
■ (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
e.g.)
・heavy hydrogen
・heavy water

[ adjective ]
■ of great intensity or power or force
e.g.)
・a heavy blow
・the fighting was heavy
・heavy seas

[ adjective satellite ]
■ slow and laborious because of weight
e.g.)
・the heavy tread of tired troops
lumbering , ponderous

[ adjective ]
■ of the military or industry
■ using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
e.g.)
・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 satellite ]
■ of great gravity or crucial import
■ requiring serious thought
e.g.)
・heavy matters of state
grave , grievous , weighty

[ adjective satellite ]
■ given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
hard , intemperate

[ adjective satellite ]
■ full and loud and deep
e.g.)
・heavy sounds
sonorous

[ adjective satellite ]
■ prodigious
e.g.)
・heavy investor
big

[ adjective satellite ]
■ made of fabric having considerable thickness
e.g.)
・a heavy coat

[ adjective satellite ]
■ of relatively large extent and density
e.g.)
・a heavy line

[ adjective satellite ]
■ permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
e.g.)
・heavy fog
dense , impenetrable

[ adjective satellite ]
■ (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
e.g.)
・Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'

[ adverb ]
■ slowly as if burdened by much weight
e.g.)
・time hung heavy on their hands
heavily

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