Antonyms for heavy

Antonyms for (adj) heavy

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


Antonyms: little, small

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

Antonyms: thin, lean

Definition: lacking excess flesh


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


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