HEAVY
Scrabble letter values: H4E1A1V4Y4 = 14
Definition
- adverb slowly as if burdened by much weight. — synonyms: heavily
- noun an actor who plays villainous roles.
- noun a serious (or tragic) role in a play.
- adjective of comparatively great physical weight or density.
- adjective unusually great in degree or quantity or number.
- adjective of the military or industry.
- adjective marked by great psychological weight.
- adjective usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it. — synonyms: fleshy, overweight
- adjective (used of soil) compact and fine-grained. — synonyms: clayey, cloggy
- adjective darkened by clouds. — synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening
- adjective of great intensity or power or force.
- adjective (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight.
- adjective (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain.
- adjective permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. — synonyms: dense, impenetrable
- adjective of relatively large extent and density.
- adjective made of fabric having considerable thickness.
- adjective prodigious. — synonyms: big(a), heavy(a)
- adjective full and loud and deep. — synonyms: sonorous
- adjective given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors. — synonyms: intemperate, hard
- adjective of great gravity or crucial import. — synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty
- adjective slow and laborious because of weight. — synonyms: lumbering, ponderous
- adjective large and powerful.
- adjective dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal.
- adjective sharply inclined.
- adjective full of. — synonyms: weighed_down
- adjective requiring or showing effort. — synonyms: labored, laboured
- adjective characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion. — synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing
- adjective lacking lightness or liveliness. — synonyms: leaden
- adjective (of sleep) deep and complete. — synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless
- adjective in an advanced stage of pregnancy. — synonyms: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with_child(p)
Examples
- “time hung heavy on their hands”
- “a heavy load”
- “lead is a heavy metal”