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Heavy

//ˈhɛv.i// adj, adv, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Having great weight.
"Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy."
2
Having the heaves.
"a heavy horse"
3
Having great weight.; Heavyset: overweight.
"When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit."
4
Serious, somber.
""We're still in an existential-stakes war with the Pa'anuri, and possibly with our own destructive tendencies." ' "Sorry. That was pretty heavy for someone who just woke up." "Oh, I'm fine. Waking up alive has ALWAYS meant spending the day trying not to be dead.""
5
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
"heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc."

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6
Good. British, dated, slang
"This film is heavy."
7
Profound. US, dated
"The Moody Blues are, like, heavy."
8
High, great.
"1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs"
9
Armed. slang
"Come heavy, or not at all."
10
Loud, distorted, or intense.
"Metal is heavier than rock."
11
Hot and humid.
12
Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
"This car is too heavy on gas."
13
With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
"Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes."
14
High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
"Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising."
15
Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
"it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch"
16
Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
"his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child"
17
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
"a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc."
18
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
"The next day we only made some eight miles, as the road was heavy beyond all belief. It lay through a desert region of country which was ancle-deep ^([sic]) in soda and alkali dust."
19
Not raised or leavened.
"heavy bread"
20
Having much body or strength.
21
With child; pregnant. obsolete
22
Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
23
Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
24
Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
"The very low prices of brandy, and the continuance of a heavy market for such a length of time, have begun to attract buyers; […]"
25
Heavily-armed.
26
Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
27
Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.; Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
"In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”"

Adjective

1
in an advanced stage of pregnancy wordnet
2
darkened by clouds wordnet
3
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained wordnet
4
(of sleep) deep and complete wordnet
5
lacking lightness or liveliness wordnet

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6
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort wordnet
7
requiring or showing effort wordnet
8
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it wordnet
9
full of; bearing great weight wordnet
10
sharply inclined wordnet
11
dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal wordnet
12
of comparatively great physical weight or density wordnet
13
large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work wordnet
14
marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness wordnet
15
unusually great in degree or quantity or number wordnet
16
(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight wordnet
17
of great intensity or power or force wordnet
18
slow and laborious because of weight wordnet
19
of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment wordnet
20
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought wordnet
21
given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors wordnet
22
full and loud and deep wordnet
23
prodigious wordnet
24
made of fabric having considerable thickness wordnet
25
of relatively large extent and density wordnet
26
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter wordnet
27
(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain wordnet

Adverb

1
In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
"Heavy-laden with their sins, time hung heavy"
2
To a great degree; greatly. colloquial, nonstandard
"Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy."
3
very India, colloquial

Adverb

1
slowly as if burdened by much weight wordnet

Noun

1
A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. slang
"With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films."
2
a serious (or tragic) role in a play wordnet
3
A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. slang
"A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it."
4
an actor who plays villainous roles wordnet
5
A prominent figure; a "major player".
"A collection of topical themes and love songs, featuring session work by women's music "heavies" Holly Near, Mary Watkins, Linda Tillery, Robin Flower, and others."

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A newspaper of the quality press. in-plural, slang
"The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1."
7
A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
"I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers."
8
A serious theatrical role. archaic, slang
"Payton boasted his range included "leading parts or genteel heavies, character old men, dialect parts, old women and, on occasion, soubrettes and leading ladies"; however, he was most at ease in light comedy roles."
9
A member of the heavy cavalry. historical
"Cavalry […] is divided into mediums, heavies, and light cavalry. The mediums consist of 13 regiments; the heavies of 2 regiments; and the light of 13."

Verb

1
To make heavier. often
"They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load."
2
To sadden.
3
To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure. Australia, New-Zealand, informal
"The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Related to have. Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”). Compare typologically Russian объёмный (obʺjómnyj), ёмкий (jómkij) (akin to име́ть (imétʹ), взять (vzjatʹ)).

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Etymology 5

From heave + -y.

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