Meaning & Definition of Heavy in English

1. An actor who plays villainous roles

2. A serious (or tragic) role in a play

1. Of comparatively great physical weight or density

• "A heavy load"

• "Lead is a heavy metal"

• "Heavy mahogany furniture"

2. Unusually great in degree or quantity or number

• "Heavy taxes"

• "A heavy fine"

• "Heavy casualties"

• "Heavy losses"

• "Heavy rain"

• "Heavy traffic"

3. 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"

4. 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"

5. Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

6. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained

• "The clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"

7. Darkened by clouds

• "A heavy sky"

8. Of great intensity or power or force

• "A heavy blow"

• "The fighting was heavy"

• "Heavy seas"

9. (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight

• "Heavy hydrogen"

• "Heavy water"

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

• "Iago is the heavy role in `othello'"

11. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• "Dense smoke"

• "Heavy fog"

• "Impenetrable gloom"

12. Of relatively large extent and density

• "A heavy line"

13. Made of fabric having considerable thickness

• "A heavy coat"

14. Prodigious

• "Big spender"

• "Big eater"

• "Heavy investor"

15. Full and loud and deep

• "Heavy sounds"

• "A herald chosen for his sonorous voice"

16. Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• "A hard drinker"

17. 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"

18. 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"

19. Large and powerful

• Especially designed for heavy loads or rough work

• "A heavy truck"

• "Heavy machinery"

20. Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal

• "A heavy pudding"

21. Sharply inclined

• "A heavy grade"

22. Full of

• Bearing great weight

• "Trees heavy with fruit"

• "Vines weighed down with grapes"

23. Requiring or showing effort

• "Heavy breathing"

• "The subject made for labored reading"

24. 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"

25. Lacking lightness or liveliness

• "Heavy humor"

• "A leaden conversation"

26. (of sleep) deep and complete

• "A heavy sleep"

• "Fell into a profound sleep"

• "A sound sleeper"

• "Deep wakeless sleep"

27. In an advanced stage of pregnancy

• "Was big with child"

• "Was great with child"

1. Slowly as if burdened by much weight

• "Time hung heavy on their hands"