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darkened by clouds
e.g. a heavy sky
Synonym: lowering sullen threatening
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(used of soil) compact and fine-grained
e.g. the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
Synonym: clayey cloggy
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(of sleep) deep and complete
e.g. a heavy sleep
e.g. fell into a profound sleep
e.g. a sound sleeper
e.g. deep wakeless sleep
Synonym: profound sound wakeless
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lacking lightness or liveliness
e.g. heavy humor
e.g. a leaden conversation
Synonym: leaden
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characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
especially physical effort
e.g. worked their arduous way up the mining valley
e.g. a grueling campaign
e.g. hard labor
e.g. heavy work
e.g. heavy going
e.g. spent many laborious hours on the project
e.g. set a punishing pace
Synonym: arduous backbreaking grueling gruelling hard laborious operose punishing toilsome
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requiring or showing effort
e.g. heavy breathing
e.g. the subject made for labored reading
Synonym: labored laboured
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usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
Synonym: fleshy overweight
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full of
bearing great weight
e.g. trees heavy with fruit
e.g. vines weighed down with grapes
Synonym: weighed down
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sharply inclined
e.g. a heavy grade
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dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
e.g. a heavy pudding
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of comparatively great physical weight or density
e.g. a heavy load
e.g. lead is a heavy metal
e.g. heavy mahogany furniture
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large and powerful
especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
e.g. a heavy truck
e.g. heavy machinery
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marked by great psychological weight
weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
e.g. a heavy heart
e.g. a heavy schedule
e.g. heavy news
e.g. a heavy silence
e.g. heavy eyelids
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unusually great in degree or quantity or number
e.g. heavy taxes
e.g. a heavy fine
e.g. heavy casualties
e.g. heavy losses
e.g. heavy rain
e.g. heavy traffic
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(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
e.g. heavy hydrogen
e.g. heavy water
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of great intensity or power or force
e.g. a heavy blow
e.g. the fighting was heavy
e.g. heavy seas
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slow and laborious because of weight
e.g. the heavy tread of tired troops
e.g. moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
e.g. ponderous prehistoric beasts
e.g. a ponderous yawn
Synonym: lumbering ponderous
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of the military or industry
using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
e.g. heavy artillery
e.g. heavy infantry
e.g. a heavy cruiser
e.g. heavy guns
e.g. heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries
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of great gravity or crucial import
requiring serious thought
e.g. grave responsibilities
e.g. faced a grave decision in a time of crisis
e.g. a grievous fault
e.g. heavy matters of state
e.g. the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
Synonym: grave grievous weighty
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given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
e.g. a hard drinker
Synonym: intemperate hard
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full and loud and deep
e.g. heavy sounds
e.g. a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
Synonym: sonorous
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made of fabric having considerable thickness
e.g. a heavy coat
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of relatively large extent and density
e.g. a heavy line
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permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
e.g. dense smoke
e.g. heavy fog
e.g. impenetrable gloom
Synonym: dense impenetrable
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(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
e.g. Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'