heavy

(noun) an actor who plays villainous roles.

(noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play.

(adj) of comparatively great physical weight or density. Synonyms: heavy (vs. light). Examples: "A heavy load." "Lead is a heavy metal." "Heavy mahogany furniture."

(adj) unusually great in degree or quantity or number. Synonyms: heavy (vs. light). Examples: "Heavy taxes." "A heavy fine." "Heavy casualties." "Heavy losses." "Heavy rain." "Heavy traffic."

(adj) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment. Synonyms: heavy (vs. light). 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."

(adj) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness. Synonyms: heavy (vs. light). Examples: "A heavy heart." "A heavy schedule." "Heavy news." "A heavy silence." "Heavy eyelids."

(adj) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it. Synonyms: fleshy, overweight.

(adj) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained. Synonyms: clayey, cloggy. Examples: "The clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated."

(adj) darkened by clouds. Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening. Examples: "A heavy sky."

(adj) of great intensity or power or force. Synonyms: heavy (vs. light). Examples: "A heavy blow." "The fighting was heavy." "Heavy seas."

(adj) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight. Synonyms: heavy (vs. light). Examples: "Heavy hydrogen." "Heavy water."

(adj) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain. Examples: "Iago is the heavy role in `othello'."

(adj) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. Synonyms: dense, impenetrable. Examples: "Dense smoke." "Heavy fog." "Impenetrable gloom."

(adj) of relatively large extent and density. Examples: "A heavy line."

(adj) made of fabric having considerable thickness. Examples: "A heavy coat."

(adj) prodigious. Synonyms: big(prenominal), heavy(prenominal). Examples: "Big spender." "Big eater." "Heavy investor."

(adj) full and loud and deep. Synonyms: sonorous. Examples: "Heavy sounds." "A herald chosen for his sonorous voice."

(adj) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors. Synonyms: intemperate, hard. Examples: "A hard drinker."

(adj) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought. Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty. 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."

(adj) slow and laborious because of weight. Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous. Examples: "The heavy tread of tired troops." "Moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot." "Ponderous prehistoric beasts." "A ponderous yawn."

(adj) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work. Examples: "A heavy truck." "Heavy machinery."

(adj) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal. Examples: "A heavy pudding."

(adj) sharply inclined. Examples: "A heavy grade."

(adj) full of; bearing great weight. Synonyms: weighed down. Examples: "Trees heavy with fruit." "Vines weighed down with grapes."

(adj) requiring or showing effort. Synonyms: labored, laboured. Examples: "Heavy breathing." "The subject made for labored reading."

(adj) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome. 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."

(adj) lacking lightness or liveliness. Synonyms: leaden. Examples: "Heavy humor." "A leaden conversation."

(adj) (of sleep) deep and complete. Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless. Examples: "A heavy sleep." "Fell into a profound sleep." "A sound sleeper." "Deep wakeless sleep."

(adj) in an advanced stage of pregnancy. Synonyms: big(predicate), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(predicate), large(predicate), heavy(predicate), with child(predicate). Examples: "Was big with child." "Was great with child."

(adv) slowly as if burdened by much weight. Synonyms: heavily. Examples: "Time hung heavy on their hands."