"heavier" in the adjective sense
1. heavy
of comparatively great physical weight or density
"a heavy load"
"lead is a heavy metal"
"heavy mahogany furniture"
2. heavy
unusually great in degree or quantity or number
"heavy taxes"
"a heavy fine"
"heavy casualties"
"heavy losses"
"heavy rain"
"heavy traffic"
3. heavy
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. heavy
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. fleshy, heavy, overweight
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
6. clayey, cloggy, heavy
used of soil) compact and fine-grained
"the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
7. heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening
darkened by clouds
"a heavy sky"
8. heavy
of great intensity or power or force
"a heavy blow"
"the fighting was heavy"
"heavy seas"
9. heavy
physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
"heavy hydrogen"
"heavy water"
10. heavy
of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
"Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"
11. dense, heavy, impenetrable
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
"dense smoke"
"heavy fog"
"impenetrable gloom"
12. heavy
of relatively large extent and density
"a heavy line"
13. heavy
made of fabric having considerable thickness
"a heavy coat"
14. big, heavy
prodigious
"big spender"
"big eater"
"heavy investor"
15. heavy, sonorous
full and loud and deep
"heavy sounds"
"a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
16. intemperate, hard, heavy
given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
"a hard drinker"
17. grave, grievous, heavy, weighty
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. heavy, lumbering, ponderous
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. heavy
large and powerful especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
"a heavy truck"
"heavy machinery"
20. heavy
dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
"a heavy pudding"
21. heavy
sharply inclined
"a heavy grade"
22. heavy, weighed down
full of bearing great weight
"trees heavy with fruit"
"vines weighed down with grapes"
23. heavy, labored, laboured
requiring or showing effort
"heavy breathing"
"the subject made for labored reading"
24. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
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. heavy, leaden
lacking lightness or liveliness
"heavy humor"
"a leaden conversation"
26. heavy, profound, sound, wakeless
of sleep) deep and complete
"a heavy sleep"
"fell into a profound sleep"
"a sound sleeper"
"deep wakeless sleep"
27. big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, heavy, with child
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
"was big with child"
"was great with child"
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