heavy

of comparatively great physical weight or density

• “a heavy load”
• “lead is a heavy metal”
• “heavy mahogony 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”

having or suggesting a viscous consistency

• “heavy cream”

wide from side to side

• “a heavy black mark”

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”

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

(used of soil) compact and fine-grained

• “the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated”

darkened by clouds

• “a heavy sky”

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”

(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain

• “Iago is the heavy role in”
• “'”

permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• “dense smoke”
• “heavy fog”
• “impenetrable gloom”

made of fabric having considerable thickness

• “a heavy coat”

of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately

• “does a lot of hard drinking”
• “a heavy drinker”

prodigious

• “big spender”
• “big eater”
• “heavy investor”

used of syllables or musical beats

full and loud and deep

• “heavy sounds”
• “a herald chosen for his sonorous voice”

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”

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”

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”

requiring or showing effort

• “heavy breathing”
• “the subject made for labored reading”

characterized by toilsome 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”

lacking lightness or liveliness

• “heavy humor”
• “a leaden conversation”

(of sleep) deep and complete

• “a heavy sleep”
• “fell into a profound sleep”
• “a sound sleeper”
• “deep wakeless sleep”

in an advanced stage of pregnancy

• “was big with child”
• “was great with child”

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”