Synonyms: heavy
Definition: a serious (or tragic) role in a play
Similar words: persona, part, role, theatrical role, character
Definition: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
Usage: she played the part of Desdemona
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: an actor who plays villainous roles
Similar words: actor, histrion, role player, thespian, player
Definition: a theatrical performer
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: pregnant
Definition: carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
Synonyms: lowering, heavy, sullen, threatening
Definition: darkened by clouds
Usage: a heavy sky
Synonyms: clayey, cloggy, heavy
Definition: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
Usage: the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
Similar words: compact
Definition: closely and firmly united or packed together
Usage: compact soil; compact clusters of flowers
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: deep
Definition: relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
Usage: a deep breath; a deep sigh; deep concentration; deep emotion; a deep trance; in a deep sleep
Definition: lacking lightness or liveliness
Usage: heavy humor; a leaden conversation
Similar words: dull
Definition: lacking in liveliness or animation
Usage: he was so dull at parties; a dull political campaign; a large dull impassive man; dull days with nothing to do; how dull and dreary the world is; fell back into one of her dull moods
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: effortful
Definition: requiring great physical effort
Synonyms: heavy, labored, laboured
Definition: requiring or showing effort
Usage: heavy breathing; the subject made for labored reading
Similar words: effortful
Definition: requiring great physical effort
Synonyms: fleshy, overweight, heavy
Definition: usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
Similar words: fat
Definition: having an (over)abundance of flesh
Usage: he hadn't remembered how fat she was
Synonyms: heavy, weighed down
Definition: full of; bearing great weight
Usage: trees heavy with fruit; vines weighed down with grapes
Similar words: full
Definition: containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
Usage: a full glass; a sky full of stars; a full life; the auditorium was full to overflowing
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: sharply inclined
Usage: a heavy grade
Similar words: steep
Definition: having a sharp inclination
Usage: the steep attic stairs; steep cliffs
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
Usage: a heavy pudding
Similar words: indigestible
Definition: digested with difficulty
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: of comparatively great physical weight or density
Usage: a heavy load; lead is a heavy metal; heavy mahogany furniture
Similar words: dense
Definition: having high relative density or specific gravity
Usage: dense as lead
Definition: having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking
Usage: the cake fell; it's a doughy mess
Similar words: heavier-than-air
Definition: relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces
Similar words: hefty
Definition: of considerable weight and size
Usage: a hefty dictionary
Similar words: massive
Definition: consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter
Usage: Earth is the most massive of the terrestrial planets
Similar words: non-buoyant
Definition: tending to sink in a liquid or fall in air
Similar words: ponderous
Definition: having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
Usage: a ponderous stone; a ponderous burden; ponderous weapons
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
Usage: a heavy truck; heavy machinery
Similar words: heavy-duty
Definition: designed for heavy work
Usage: a heavy-duty detergent; heavy-duty gloves
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: taxing, burdensome, onerous
Definition: not easily borne; wearing
Usage: the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return; my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests; a taxing schedule
Similar words: perturbing, worrisome, worrying, troubling, distressful, distressing, disturbing
Definition: causing distress or worry or anxiety
Usage: distressing (or disturbing) news; lived in heroic if something distressful isolation; a disturbing amount of crime; a revelation that was most perturbing; a new and troubling thought; in a particularly worrisome predicament; a worrying situation; a worrying time
Similar words: weighted, leaden
Definition: made heavy or weighted down with weariness
Usage: his leaden arms; weighted eyelids
Similar words: oppressive
Definition: weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
Usage: the atmosphere was oppressive; oppressive sorrows
Similar words: weighty
Definition: weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
Usage: weighty problems
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: unusually great in degree or quantity or number
Usage: heavy taxes; a heavy fine; heavy casualties; heavy losses; heavy rain; heavy traffic
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: of great intensity or power or force
Usage: a heavy blow; the fighting was heavy; heavy seas
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: heavy-footed
Definition: (of movement) lacking ease or lightness
Usage: his tired heavy-footed walk
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: important, of import
Definition: of great significance or value
Usage: important people; the important questions of the day
Synonyms: heavy, intemperate, hard
Definition: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
Usage: a hard drinker
Similar words: indulgent
Definition: characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
Usage: indulgent grandparents
Definition: full and loud and deep
Usage: heavy sounds; a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
Similar words: full
Definition: (of sound) having marked deepness and body
Usage: full tones; a full voice
Definition: prodigious
Usage: big spender; big eater; heavy investor
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: made of fabric having considerable thickness
Usage: a heavy coat
Similar words: thick
Definition: not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
Usage: an inch thick; a thick board; a thick sandwich; spread a thick layer of butter; thick coating of dust; thick warm blankets
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: of relatively large extent and density
Usage: a heavy line
Similar words: thick
Definition: not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
Usage: an inch thick; a thick board; a thick sandwich; spread a thick layer of butter; thick coating of dust; thick warm blankets
Synonyms: dense, impenetrable, heavy
Definition: permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
Usage: dense smoke; heavy fog; impenetrable gloom
Similar words: thick
Definition: relatively dense in consistency
Usage: thick cream; thick soup; thick smoke; thick fog
Synonyms: heavy
Definition: (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
Usage: Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
Similar words: wicked
Definition: morally bad in principle or practice