of comparatively great physical weight or density; a heavy load; lead is a heavy metal; heavy mahogany furniture'

unusually great in degree or quantity or number; heavy taxes; a heavy fine; heavy casualties; heavy losses; heavy rain; heavy traffic'

of the military or industry; 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'

marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; a heavy heart; a heavy schedule; heavy news; a heavy silence; heavy eyelids'

of great intensity or power or force; a heavy blow; the fighting was heavy; heavy seas'

(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; heavy hydrogen; heavy water'

an actor who plays villainous roles

a serious (or tragic) role in a play

slowly as if burdened by much weight; time hung heavy on their hands

[ Syn: heavily , heavily , heavily , heavily , heavily , heavily , heavily , heavily ]

(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; Iago is the heavy role in `Othello''

permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; dense smoke; heavy fog; impenetrable gloom

[ Syn: dense , impenetrable ]

of relatively large extent and density; a heavy line'

made of fabric having considerable thickness; a heavy coat'

prodigious; big spender; big eater; heavy investor

[ Syn: big ]

full and loud and deep; heavy sounds; a herald chosen for his sonorous voice

[ Syn: sonorous ]

given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; a hard drinker

[ Syn: intemperate , hard ]

of great gravity or crucial import; 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

[ Syn: grave , grievous , weighty ]

slow and laborious because of weight; the heavy tread of tired troops; moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot; ponderous prehistoric beasts; a ponderous yawn

[ Syn: lumbering , ponderous ]

large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; a heavy truck; heavy machinery'

dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; a heavy pudding'

sharply inclined; a heavy grade'

full of; bearing great weight; trees heavy with fruit; vines weighed down with grapes

[ Syn: weighed down ]

requiring or showing effort; heavy breathing; the subject made for labored reading

[ Syn: labored , laboured ]

characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; 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

[ Syn: arduous , backbreaking , grueling , gruelling , hard , laborious , operose , punishing , toilsome ]

lacking lightness or liveliness; heavy humor; a leaden conversation

[ Syn: leaden ]

(of sleep) deep and complete; a heavy sleep; fell into a profound sleep; a sound sleeper; deep wakeless sleep

[ Syn: profound , sound , wakeless ]

in an advanced stage of pregnancy; was big with child; was great with child

[ Syn: big , enceinte , expectant , gravid , great , large , with child ]

usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

[ Syn: fleshy , overweight ]

(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated

[ Syn: clayey , cloggy ]

darkened by clouds; a heavy sky

[ Syn: lowering , sullen , threatening ]