Main entry: heavy
Definition: of comparatively great physical weight or density
Usage: a heavy load; lead is a heavy metal; heavy mahogany furniture
Antonyms: light
Definition: of comparatively little physical weight or density
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
Antonyms: light
Definition: psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
Antonyms: weightless
Definition: having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light
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
Antonyms: light
Definition: not great in degree or quantity or number
Main entry: heavy
Definition: (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
Usage: heavy hydrogen; heavy water
Antonyms: light
Definition: (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
Main entry: heavy
Definition: of great intensity or power or force
Usage: a heavy blow; the fighting was heavy; heavy seas
Antonyms: light
Definition: of little intensity or power or force
Definition: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Antonyms: small
Definition: on a small scale
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
Antonyms: light
Definition: of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
Main entry: clayey, cloggy, heavy
Definition: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
Usage: the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
Antonyms: loose
Definition: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
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
Definition: made of fabric having considerable thickness
Usage: a heavy coat
Antonyms: thin
Definition: of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
Antonyms: thin
Definition: relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
Main entry: heavy
Definition: of relatively large extent and density
Usage: a heavy line
Antonyms: thin
Definition: of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
Antonyms: thin
Definition: relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
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
Antonyms: thin
Definition: of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
Antonyms: thin
Definition: relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
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
Antonyms: shallow
Definition: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
Antonyms: shallow
Definition: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
Main entry: heavy
Definition: sharply inclined
Usage: a heavy grade
Antonyms: gradual
Definition: (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt
Main entry: heavy, weighed down
Definition: full of; bearing great weight
Usage: trees heavy with fruit; vines weighed down with grapes
Antonyms: empty
Definition: holding or containing nothing
Antonyms: thin
Definition: (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
Main entry: sonorous, heavy
Definition: full and loud and deep
Usage: heavy sounds; a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
Antonyms: empty
Definition: holding or containing nothing
Antonyms: thin
Definition: (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
Main entry: leaden, heavy
Definition: lacking lightness or liveliness
Usage: heavy humor; a leaden conversation
Antonyms: sharpen
Definition: make sharp or sharper
Antonyms: bright
Definition: emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
Antonyms: sharp
Definition: having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
Antonyms: sharp
Definition: keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
Antonyms: lively
Definition: full of life and energy
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
Antonyms: nonpregnant
Definition: not pregnant
Main entry: lowering, heavy, sullen, threatening
Definition: darkened by clouds
Usage: a heavy sky
Antonyms: clear
Definition: free from clouds or mist or haze
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
Antonyms: unimportant
Definition: not important
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
Antonyms: effortless
Definition: requiring or apparently requiring no effort
Main entry: heavy, labored, laboured
Definition: requiring or showing effort
Usage: heavy breathing; the subject made for labored reading
Antonyms: effortless
Definition: requiring or apparently requiring no effort
Main entry: heavy, intemperate, hard
Definition: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
Usage: a hard drinker
Antonyms: nonindulgent, strict
Definition: characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
Main entry: heavy
Definition: dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
Usage: a heavy pudding
Antonyms: digestible
Definition: capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal
Main entry: heavy
Definition: large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
Usage: a heavy truck; heavy machinery
Antonyms: light-duty
Definition: not designed for heavy work
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
Antonyms: light-footed
Definition: (of movement) having a light and springy step
Main entry: heavy, big
Definition: prodigious
Usage: big spender; big eater; heavy investor
Antonyms: temperate
Definition: not extreme in behavior
Antonyms: temperate
Definition: (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate
Main entry: heavy
Definition: (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
Usage: Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
Antonyms: virtuous
Definition: morally excellent