heavy

adjective heavier · heaviest

1. Having great weight. Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.
2. Heavyset: overweight. When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit.
3. 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."
4. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive. heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
5. UK, dated, slang Good. This film is heavy.
6. US, dated Profound. The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.
7. 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
8. slang Armed. Come heavy, or not at all.
9. Loud, distorted, or intense. Metal is heavier than rock.
10. Hot and humid.
11. Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people. This car is too heavy on gas.
12. With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness. Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes.
13. High in fat or protein; difficult to digest. Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.
14. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense. it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch
15. 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
16. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid. a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
17. 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.
18. Not raised or leavened. heavy bread
19. Having much body or strength.
20. obsolete With child; pregnant.
21. Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one. heavy water
22. Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
23. 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; […]
24. Heavily-armed.
25. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
26. specifically Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 pounds, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.

Similar: sweer, swear

adverb more heavy · most heavy

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

noun heavies · heavys

1. slang A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
2. slang A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
3. 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.
4. in plural, slang A newspaper of the quality press. 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.
5. A relatively large multi-engined aircraft. In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”
6. archaic, slang A serious theatrical role. 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.
7. historical A member of the heavy cavalry. 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 heavies · heavying · heavied

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

adjective more heavy · most heavy

1. Having the heaves. a heavy horse