I'm glad we didn't go there because there were some localized heavy rain showers.
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Heavy
//ˈhɛv.i//
Synonyms for "heavy" (867 found)
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Closest matches (174)
backbreakingbigburdensomedarkdensedistressfuldoughygrievousharshheavilyheftyimpenetrableleadenlumberingmassiveoppressiveoverweightponderousthickweighty
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Adjective(5 words)
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(3 words)
Strong matches (260)
crowdedcrucialcrushingcuecumbersomecumbersomelycumbrouscumuliformcumulouscurdleddandydeaddebilitateddeepdeep-echoingdeep-pitcheddeep-toneddeepmoutheddejecteddelicious
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dentaldepresseddepressingdespondentdifficultdimdim witteddim-witteddirtydisconsolatediseurdiseusedismaldissimilateddistressingdopeddopeydormantdorsaldowncastdownhearteddozydraggydramatizerdreamydrearisomedrearydroopydrowsydruggeddrugged with sleepdrydryasdustduckydulldull of minddull-headeddull-pateddull-witteddurabledustyearnesteffeteeffortfulelegantelephantineemptyencumberedendowed with beautyenduringenervatedesotericetiolatedexactingexanimateexcessiveexhaustingexhaustiveexpectantexpectingexquisiteexuberanteye-fillingfabfadefatfat partfat-wittedfatalfatefulfattyfeederfiendfinefine and dandyfirmflatfleshyflourishingflowerlikefoilforcedforcefulformalformidablefoulfrontfullfull bodiedfull-bodiedgaumygeargelatinousgestatingglairyglidegloomyglossalglottalgluelikeglueyglutenousglutinoseglutinousgonegone to seedgooeygracefulgracilegrandgravegravidgreatgreygrievinggrindinggroggygroovygrossgross-headedgruelinggrumousguindegumbogumbolikegumlikegummousgummygutturalhalf asleephaltinghandsomehardhard earnedhard foughthard-earnedhard-foughtheavier than airheavy dutyheavy with childheavy with sleepheavy-eyedheavyheartedheavysetheavyweighthebetudinoushenchmanherculeanhermeticheroheroinehighhippohistriohistrionho humho-humhollowhothunky doryhunky-doryimpermeableimportantimposingin a stuporin abeyancein suspenseinactiveinaneinanimateincomprehensibleindigestibleinertinexcitableingenueinkhorninsipidinspissatedinsupportableintemperateintenseintolerableintonatedirksomeirresistiblejadedjam packedjam-packedjam-upjammedjejunejelledjelliedjellylikejungledjunglyjust dandyjuvenilekeenkillingknocked uplabiallabiodentallabiovelarlaboredlaboriouslabouredlackadaisicalladenladen with sorrowlanguidlanguorouslastinglatentlaterallatinate
Adjective(17 words)
Adjective(4 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (433)
laxleadlead roleleadenlyleading ladyleading manleading womanlenticularislethargiclifelesslightlineslingualliquidlistlessloadedlogylong facedlong-facedlovely
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lowlow spiritedlow-pitchedlow-spiritedloweringlumplumpishlushluxuriantmainmammatusmarvymassymatinee idolmaximummeanmelancholymidmightymimemimermimicmiserablemonologistmonophthongalmonotonousmoribundmorosemucilaginousmummermutednappingnarcolepticnarcosenarcotizednarcousnarrownasalnasalizedneatnebulousniftynimbosenobbynoddingnon buoyantnonporousnubilousnumbobeseobtuseocclusiveoccultokokayonerousonerouslyopenoperoseoppressedoscitantout of itout of sightout of this worldoverblownoverburdensomeovercastovercloudedoverflowingovergrownoverloadedoverrunoxytonepackedpainfulpalatalpalatalizedpalepallidpantomimepantomimistpartparturientpassivepastypaunchypeachypeachy-keenpedestrianpeplesspersonpersonagepharyngealpharyngealizedphlegmaticphonemicphoneticphonicpiecepitchpitchedplagueyplayactorplayerplenaryploddingplumppointlesspokypompousponderouslypoopedportentousportlyposttonicpotbellypowerfulpreggerspregnantprettyprodigiousprofoundprofuseprosaicprotagonistprotean actorpulchritudinouspunishingrankreciterreconditeretroflexrichriotousrippingroleroly polyroly-polyropyrosciusrotundroughroundedruggedrumsadsad of heartsad-eyedsad-facedsaddenedsadheartedsatedscrumptioussecretsedatedsedentarysemivowelsepulchralseriousserriedsesquipedalianseveresideslabbyslackslap-upslavishsleep-drownedsleep-drunksleep-filledsleep-swollensleepfulsleepingsleepyslimyslitheryslowslow wittedslow-wittedsluggishslumberingslumberousslumberysmashingsmolderingsnoozysobersoftsolemnsolidsomething elsesomnolentsonantsonoroussoporificsoresorrowfulsoubrettesoundspiffingspiffyspiritlesssquallystablestage performerstage playerstagnantstagnatingstaidstandingstarchystaticsteadysteepsterilestickystiffstiflingstiltedstodgystoogestoppedstormystoutstraight manstraight partstrainedstratiformstratousstrenuousstressedstretchystringystrollerstrolling playerstrongstuffystultifiedstultifyingstunningstupidstuporosestuporoussturdysubstantialsullensuperfetatesuperficialsuperimpregnatedsupinesupporting charactersupporting rolesurdsuspendedswagbellysweerswellsyllabicsyrupytackytametastelesstediousteemingtenacioustenseterribletheatricalthespianthick wittedthick-bodiedthick-brainedthick-growingthick-headedthick-patedthick-wittedthickenedthickheadedthicksetthickskulledthreateningthree dimensionalthree-dimensionalthroatythugthunderheadedtitle roletoilsometonaltonictorpidtorrentialtotaltoughtragictremelloidtremellosetroublesometroupertryingtubtub of lardtubbytunturgidtwangytyrannousunaccentedunarousedunbearableunfathomableungracefulunhandyunhappyuninspireduninterestingunlivelyunmanageableunroundedunstressedunsupportableunweededunwieldyunyieldinguphillupsettingutility manvapidvegetablevegetativevelarvexatiousviciousvillainviolentviscidviscoseviscousvocalicvocoidvoicedvoicelessvowelvowellikewakelesswalk onwalk-onwalking partwanweakwearingwearisomewearywearyingweed-chokedweed-riddenweedyweighed downweighed uponweightedweighted downweightfulweightilywell-builtwell-constructedwell-foundedwell-groundedwell-madewickedwidewizardwoodenworld-wearyyawningyawny
Adjective(17 words)
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Translations
300 translations across 173 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- ахьанҭа adj (having great weight)
Afrikaans
1 entries- swaar adj (having great weight)
Akkadian
4 entries- kabittum adj (having great weight)
- kabtum adj (having great weight)
- kabtātum adj (having great weight)
- kabūtum adj (having great weight)
Aklanon
1 entries- mabug-at adj (having great weight)
Albanian
1 entries- rëndë adj (having great weight)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- βαρύς adj (having great weight)
Andi
1 entries- гьокӏору adj (having great weight)
Arabic
4 entries- تقيل adj (having great weight)
- تقيل adj (having great weight)
- تقيل adj (having great weight)
- تْقيل adj (having great weight)
Armenian
1 entries- ծանր adj (having great weight)
Aromanian
1 entries- greu adj (having great weight)
Assamese
2 entries- গধুৰ adj (having great weight)
- ভাৰী adj (having great weight)
Asturian
1 entries- pesáu adj (having great weight)
Avar
1 entries- бакӏаб adj (having great weight)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- ağır adj (having great weight)
- ciddi adj (serious)
Bangi
1 entries- lito adj (having great weight)
Bashkir
1 entries- ауыр adj (having great weight)
Basque
1 entries- astun adj (having great weight)
Belarusian
3 entries- ва́жкі adj (having great weight)
- ця́жкі́ adj (having great weight)
- цяжкі́́ adj (having great weight)
Bengali
1 entries- ভারী adj (having great weight)
Bikol Central
1 entries- magabat adj (having great weight)
Breton
1 entries- ponner adj (having great weight)
Bulgarian
4 entries- натоварен adj (laden to a great extent)
- серио́зен adj (serious)
- силен adj (of rate of flow: high)
- те́жък adj (having great weight)
Burmese
2 entries- လေး adj (having great weight)
- လေးလံ adj (having great weight)
Buryat
1 entries- хүндэ adj (having great weight)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- тяжкый adj (having great weight)
Catalan
2 entries- feixuc adj (having great weight)
- pesant adj (having great weight)
Cebuano
1 entries- bug-at adj (having great weight)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- قورس adj (having great weight)
Central Melanau
1 entries- baat adj (having great weight)
Chamicuro
1 entries- pwawa adj (having great weight)
Chechen
2 entries- деза adj (having great weight)
- еза adj (having great weight)
Chepang
1 entries- लीःसा adj (having great weight)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎦᎨᏓ adj (having great weight)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 重 adj (having great weight)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 重 adj (having great weight)
Chuvash
1 entries- йывӑр adj (having great weight)
Crimean Tatar
2 entries- avur adj (having great weight)
- ağır adj (having great weight)
Czech
4 entries- těžký adj (having great weight)
- těžký adj (serious)
- těžký adj (of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people)
- gorila noun (slang: doorman)
Dalmatian
1 entries- pesaint adj (having great weight)
Danish
1 entries- tung adj (having great weight)
Dutch
2 entries- serieus adj (serious)
- zwaar adj (having great weight)
Erzya
1 entries- стака adj (having great weight)
Esperanto
1 entries- peza adj (having great weight)
Estonian
1 entries- raske adj (having great weight)
Even
1 entries- ургэ adj (having great weight)
Evenki
1 entries- ургэ adj (having great weight)
Faroese
1 entries- tungur adj (having great weight)
Finnish
4 entries- kova adj (slang: good)
- kova adj (of rate of flow: high)
- kova adj (of music: loud, distorted)
- painava adj (having great weight)
French
4 entries- grave adj (serious)
- gros adj (of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people)
- lourd adj (having great weight)
- lourd adj (serious)
Friulian
2 entries- grivi adj (having great weight)
- pesant adj (having great weight)
Gagauz
1 entries- aar adj (having great weight)
Galician
1 entries- pesado adj (having great weight)
Georgian
1 entries- მძიმე adj (having great weight)
German
4 entries- drückend adj (of weather:hot and humid)
- dunkel adj (serious)
- ernst adj (serious)
- finster adj (serious)
Gheg Albanian
1 entries- ran adj (having great weight)
Greek
2 entries- βαρύς adj (having great weight)
- σοβαρός adj (serious)
Guerrero Amuzgo
1 entries- ja adj (having great weight)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- lou adj (having great weight)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kaumaha adj (having great weight)
Hebrew
1 entries- כָּבֵד adj (having great weight)
Higaonon
1 entries- mabug-at adj (having great weight)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- mabug-at adj (having great weight)
Hindi
1 entries- भारा adj (having great weight)
Hungarian
1 entries- nehéz adj (having great weight)
Icelandic
1 entries- þungur adj (having great weight)
Ido
2 entries- grava adj (having great weight)
- grava adj (serious)
Ilocano
2 entries- nadagas adj (having great weight)
- nadagsen adj (having great weight)
Indonesian
4 entries- berat adj (having great weight)
- berat adj (serious)
- berat adj (of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people)
- deras adj (of rate of flow: high)
Ingush
2 entries- деза adj (having great weight)
- еза adj (having great weight)
Irish
2 entries- trom adj (having great weight)
- tromchúiseach adj (serious)
Italian
4 entries- pesante adj (having great weight)
- buttafuori noun (slang: doorman)
- cattivo noun (bad guy)
- guardiano noun (slang: doorman)
Japanese
4 entries- すごい adj (slang: good)
- むっとした adj (of weather:hot and humid)
- 多量の adj (of rate of flow: high)
- 大量の adj (of rate of flow: high)
Javanese
1 entries- abot adj (having great weight)
Kaitag
1 entries- декӏ adj (having great weight)
Kapampangan
1 entries- mabayat adj (having great weight)
Kashubian
1 entries- cãżczi adj (having great weight)
Kazakh
1 entries- ауыр adj (having great weight)
Khmer
1 entries- ធ្ងន់ adj (having great weight)
Korean
1 entries- 무겁다 adj (having great weight)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- оор adj (having great weight)
Ladino
1 entries- pezgado adj (having great weight)
Lao
2 entries- ຫນັກ adj (having great weight)
- ໜັກ adj (having great weight)
Latin
2 entries- gravis adj (having great weight)
- gravis adj (serious)
Latvian
1 entries- smags adj (having great weight)
Lingala
1 entries- zito adj (having great weight)
Lithuanian
1 entries- sunkus adj (having great weight)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- śěžki adj (having great weight)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- schwéier adj (having great weight)
Macedonian
4 entries- обилен adj (of rate of flow: high)
- тежок adj (having great weight)
- тежок adj (serious)
- тежок adj (of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people)
Malagasy
1 entries- mavesatra adj (having great weight)
Malay
2 entries- berat adj (having great weight)
- lebut adj (of rate of flow: high)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡠᠵᡝᠨ adj (having great weight)
Mansaka
1 entries- bugat adj (having great weight)
Marathi
1 entries- जड adj (having great weight)
Middle English
3 entries- hevy adj (having great weight)
- hevy adj (serious)
- hevy adj (of great force)
Minangkabau
1 entries- barek adj (having great weight)
Moksha
1 entries- стака adj (having great weight)
Mongolian
1 entries- хүнд adj (having great weight)
Māori
4 entries- makerewhatu adj (of rate of flow: high)
- makerewhatu adj (of great force)
- patapataiāwhā adj (of rate of flow: high)
- pūroro adj (of rate of flow: high)
Nanai
1 entries- хуйгэ adj (having great weight)
Navajo
2 entries- ndaaz adj (having great weight)
- nisdaaz adj (having great weight)
Neapolitan
1 entries- pesante adj (having great weight)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- dziro adj (having great weight)
Norman
2 entries- b'sant adj (having great weight)
- b'sant adj (serious)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- giran adj (having great weight)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- tung adj (having great weight)
- vektig adj (having great weight)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- tung adj (having great weight)
- vektig adj (having great weight)
Occitan
1 entries- pesuc adj (having great weight)
Odia
1 entries- ଭାରି adj (having great weight)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- тѧжькъ adj (having great weight)
Old English
3 entries- hefiġ adj (having great weight)
- pīs adj (having great weight)
- swǣr adj (having great weight)
Old Irish
1 entries- trom adj (having great weight)
Old Javanese
1 entries- bot adj (having great weight)
Old Norse
1 entries- þungr adj (having great weight)
Oromo
1 entries- ulfaataa adj (having great weight)
Ossetian
1 entries- уӕззау adj (having great weight)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- آغر adj (having great weight)
- وزین adj (having great weight)
Papiamentu
1 entries- pisá adj (having great weight)
Pashto
2 entries- دروند adj (having great weight)
- دروند adj (serious)
Persian
2 entries- سنگین adj (having great weight)
- سنگین adj (of weather:hot and humid)
Piedmontese
1 entries- gravos adj (having great weight)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- schwoa adj (having great weight)
Polish
1 entries- ciężki adj (having great weight)
Portuguese
4 entries- grave adj (serious)
- mormacento adj (of weather:hot and humid)
- pesado adj (having great weight)
- pesado adj (of rate of flow: high)
Quechua
1 entries- llasaq adj (having great weight)
Rapa Nui
1 entries- pagaha'a adj (having great weight)
Rohingya
1 entries- bór adj (having great weight)
Romani
1 entries- pharo adj (having great weight)
Romanian
3 entries- grav adj (serious)
- greu adj (having great weight)
- serios adj (serious)
Romansch
4 entries- greav adj (having great weight)
- greiv adj (having great weight)
- grev adj (having great weight)
- pasant adj (having great weight)
Russian
2 entries- тя́жкий adj (having great weight)
- тяжёлый adj (having great weight)
Sanskrit
1 entries- गुरु adj (having great weight)
Santali
1 entries- ᱚᱡᱚᱨ adj (having great weight)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- trom adj (having great weight)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- téžak adj (having great weight)
- те́жак adj (having great weight)
Shor
1 entries- аар adj (having great weight)
Sicilian
1 entries- pisanti adj (having great weight)
Sikkimese
1 entries- ལྕི་པོ adj (having great weight)
Slovak
1 entries- ťažký adj (having great weight)
Slovene
1 entries- težek adj (having great weight)
Somali
1 entries- culus adj (having great weight)
Spanish
3 entries- onusto (disused) adj (having great weight)
- pesado adj (having great weight)
- ponderoso adj (having great weight)
Sundanese
1 entries- abot adj (having great weight)
Swahili
1 entries- zito adj (having great weight)
Swedish
1 entries- tung adj (having great weight)
Tagalog
2 entries- mabigat adj (having great weight)
- mabigat adj (serious)
Tajik
3 entries- вазнин adj (having great weight)
- гарон adj (having great weight)
- сангин adj (having great weight)
Tarantino
1 entries- pesande adj (having great weight)
Tatar
1 entries- авыр adj (having great weight)
Tausug
1 entries- mabuggat adj (having great weight)
Telugu
1 entries- బరువైన adj (having great weight)
Tetum
1 entries- todan adj (having great weight)
Thai
1 entries- หนัก adj (having great weight)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལྗིད་པོ adj (having great weight)
Turkish
1 entries- ağır adj (having great weight)
Turkmen
1 entries- agyr adj (having great weight)
Tuvan
1 entries- аар adj (having great weight)
Ukrainian
1 entries- важки́й adj (having great weight)
Urdu
1 entries- بھاری adj (having great weight)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئېغىر adj (having great weight)
Uzbek
2 entries- ogʻir adj (having great weight)
- vazmin adj (having great weight)
Venetan
1 entries- pexante adj (having great weight)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nặng adj (having great weight)
Walloon
2 entries- pezant adj (having great weight)
- ploncasse adj (having great weight)
Welsh
1 entries- trwm adj (having great weight)
West-Frisian
1 entries- swier adj (having great weight)
Western Bukidnon Manobo
1 entries- meveɣat adj (having great weight)
White Hmong
1 entries- nyhav adj (having great weight)
Yakut
1 entries- ыарахан adj (having great weight)
Yucatec Maya
1 entries- aal adj (having great weight)
Zazaki
1 entries- gıran (diq) adj (having great weight)
Zealandic
1 entries- zwaer adj (having great weight)
Zhuang
1 entries- naek adj (having great weight)
Sample sentences
66 total sentences available.
I was drenched to the skin because of the heavy rain.
Source: tatoeba (19235)
A heavy snow fell in Kyoto for the first time in ages.
Source: tatoeba (19315)
The closing of school was due to the heavy snow.
Source: tatoeba (19767)
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