Dictionary entry details
• HEAVY (noun)
Meaning:
An actor who plays villainous roles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("heavy" is a kind of...):
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Meaning:
A serious (or tragic) role in a play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("heavy" is a kind of...):
character; part; persona; role; theatrical role (an actor's portrayal of someone in a play)
• HEAVY (adjective)
Meaning:
Of comparatively great physical weight or density
Context examples:
a heavy load / lead is a heavy metal / heavy mahogany furniture
Similar:
ponderous (having great mass and weight and unwieldiness)
non-buoyant (tending to sink in a liquid or fall in air)
massive (consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter)
hefty (of considerable weight and size)
heavier-than-air (relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces)
doughy; soggy (having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking)
dense (having high relative density or specific gravity)
Attribute:
weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)
Antonym:
light (of comparatively little physical weight or density)
Meaning:
Unusually great in degree or quantity or number
Context examples:
heavy taxes / a heavy fine / heavy casualties / heavy losses / heavy rain / heavy traffic
Similar:
harsh (severe)
Antonym:
light (not great in degree or quantity or number)
Meaning:
Of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
Context examples:
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
Antonym:
light (of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment)
Meaning:
Marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
Context examples:
a heavy heart / a heavy schedule / heavy news / a heavy silence / heavy eyelids
Similar:
weighty (weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry)
oppressive (weighing heavily on the senses or spirit)
leaden; weighted (made heavy or weighted down with weariness)
distressful; distressing; disturbing; perturbing; troubling; worrisome; worrying (causing distress or worry or anxiety)
burdensome; onerous; taxing (not easily borne; wearing)
Antonym:
light (psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles)
Meaning:
Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
Synonyms:
overweight; fleshy; heavy
Similar:
fat (having much flesh (especially fat))
Meaning:
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained
Synonyms:
cloggy; clayey; heavy
Context example:
the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
Similar:
compact (closely and firmly united or packed together)
Meaning:
Darkened by clouds
Synonyms:
lowering; sullen; threatening; heavy
Context example:
a heavy sky
Similar:
cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)
Meaning:
Of great intensity or power or force
Context examples:
a heavy blow / the fighting was heavy / heavy seas
Similar:
big (marked by intense physical force)
Antonym:
light (of little intensity or power or force)
Meaning:
(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
Context examples:
heavy hydrogen / heavy water
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Antonym:
light ((physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average)
Meaning:
(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
Context example:
Iago is the heavy role in 'Othello'
Similar:
wicked (morally bad in principle or practice)
Meaning:
Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
Synonyms:
dense; impenetrable; heavy
Context examples:
dense smoke / heavy fog / impenetrable gloom
Similar:
thick (relatively dense in consistency)
Meaning:
Of relatively large extent and density
Context example:
a heavy line
Similar:
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
Meaning:
Made of fabric having considerable thickness
Context example:
a heavy coat
Similar:
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
Meaning:
Prodigious
Synonyms:
big; heavy
Context examples:
big spender / big eater / heavy investor
Similar:
intemperate (excessive in behavior)
Meaning:
Full and loud and deep
Synonyms:
sonorous; heavy
Context examples:
heavy sounds / a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
Similar:
full ((of sound) having marked depth and body)
Meaning:
Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
Synonyms:
intemperate; hard; heavy
Context example:
a hard drinker
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Meaning:
Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
Synonyms:
weighty; grievous; grave; heavy
Context examples:
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
Similar:
important; of import (of great significance or value)
Meaning:
Slow and laborious because of weight
Synonyms:
lumbering; ponderous; heavy
Context examples:
the heavy tread of tired troops / moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot / ponderous prehistoric beasts / a ponderous yawn
Similar:
heavy-footed ((of movement) lacking ease or lightness)
Meaning:
Large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
Context examples:
a heavy truck / heavy machinery
Similar:
heavy-duty (designed for heavy work)
Meaning:
Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
Context example:
a heavy pudding
Similar:
indigestible (digested with difficulty)
Meaning:
Sharply inclined
Context example:
a heavy grade
Similar:
steep (having a sharp inclination)
Meaning:
Full of; bearing great weight
Synonyms:
weighed down; heavy
Context examples:
trees heavy with fruit / vines weighed down with grapes
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
Meaning:
Requiring or showing effort
Synonyms:
labored; laboured; heavy
Context examples:
heavy breathing / the subject made for labored reading
Similar:
effortful (requiring great physical effort)
Meaning:
Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Synonyms:
operose; laborious; toilsome; gruelling; grueling; backbreaking; arduous; punishing; hard; heavy
Context examples:
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
Similar:
effortful (requiring great physical effort)
Meaning:
Lacking lightness or liveliness
Synonyms:
leaden; heavy
Context examples:
heavy humor / a leaden conversation
Similar:
dull (lacking in liveliness or animation)
Meaning:
(of sleep) deep and complete
Synonyms:
wakeless; profound; sound; heavy
Context examples:
a heavy sleep / fell into a profound sleep / a sound sleeper / deep wakeless sleep
Similar:
deep (relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply)
Meaning:
In an advanced stage of pregnancy
Synonyms:
with child; gravid; enceinte; expectant; great; large; big; heavy
Context examples:
was big with child / was great with child
Similar:
pregnant (carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life)
• HEAVY (adverb)
Meaning:
Slowly as if burdened by much weight
Synonyms:
heavy; heavily
Context example:
time hung heavy on their hands
