Main entry: heavy
Definition: a serious (or tragic) role in a play
Main entry: heavy
Definition: an actor who plays villainous roles
Main entry: big, with child, large, heavy, gravid, great, enceinte, expectant
Definition: in an advanced stage of pregnancy
Usage: was big with child; was great with child
Main entry: lowering, heavy, sullen, threatening
Definition: darkened by clouds
Usage: a heavy sky
Main entry: clayey, cloggy, heavy
Definition: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
Usage: the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
Main entry: profound, wakeless, heavy, sound
Definition: (of sleep) deep and complete
Usage: a heavy sleep; fell into a profound sleep; a sound sleeper; deep wakeless sleep
Definition: lacking lightness or liveliness
Usage: heavy humor; a leaden conversation
Main entry: heavy, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, backbreaking, arduous, toilsome, operose, punishing
Definition: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Usage: 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
Main entry: heavy, labored, laboured
Definition: requiring or showing effort
Usage: heavy breathing; the subject made for labored reading
Main entry: fleshy, overweight, heavy
Definition: usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
Main entry: heavy, weighed down
Definition: full of; bearing great weight
Usage: trees heavy with fruit; vines weighed down with grapes
Main entry: heavy
Definition: sharply inclined
Usage: a heavy grade
Main entry: heavy
Definition: dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
Usage: a heavy pudding
Main entry: heavy
Definition: of comparatively great physical weight or density
Usage: a heavy load; lead is a heavy metal; heavy mahogany furniture
Main entry: heavy
Definition: large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
Usage: a heavy truck; heavy machinery
Main entry: heavy
Definition: marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
Usage: a heavy heart; a heavy schedule; heavy news; a heavy silence; heavy eyelids
Main entry: heavy
Definition: unusually great in degree or quantity or number
Usage: heavy taxes; a heavy fine; heavy casualties; heavy losses; heavy rain; heavy traffic
Main entry: heavy
Definition: (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
Usage: heavy hydrogen; heavy water
Main entry: heavy
Definition: of great intensity or power or force
Usage: a heavy blow; the fighting was heavy; heavy seas
Main entry: heavy, ponderous, lumbering
Definition: slow and laborious because of weight
Usage: the heavy tread of tired troops; moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot; ponderous prehistoric beasts; a ponderous yawn
Main entry: heavy
Definition: of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
Usage: 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
Main entry: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty
Definition: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
Usage: 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
Main entry: heavy, intemperate, hard
Definition: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
Usage: a hard drinker
Definition: full and loud and deep
Usage: heavy sounds; a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
Definition: prodigious
Usage: big spender; big eater; heavy investor
Main entry: heavy
Definition: made of fabric having considerable thickness
Usage: a heavy coat
Main entry: heavy
Definition: of relatively large extent and density
Usage: a heavy line
Main entry: dense, impenetrable, heavy
Definition: permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
Usage: dense smoke; heavy fog; impenetrable gloom
Main entry: heavy
Definition: (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
Usage: Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
Definition: slowly as if burdened by much weight
Usage: time hung heavy on their hands