heavy
heavy is a 5-letter English word with 45 senses as adjective, adverb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having the heaves. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Having the heaves.
- superlative. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.
- superlative. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
- superlative. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.
- superlative. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.
- superlative. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.
- superlative. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.
- superlative. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.
- superlative. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.
- superlative. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.
- superlative. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.
- superlative. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.
- superlative. With child; pregnant.
- adverb. Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.
- transitive verb. To make heavy.
- noun. a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- noun. an actor who plays villainous roles
- adjective. in an advanced stage of pregnancy
"was big with child"
"was great with child"
- adjective. darkened by clouds
"a heavy sky"
- adjective. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
"the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
- adjective. (of sleep) deep and complete
"a heavy sleep"
"fell into a profound sleep"
- adjective. lacking lightness or liveliness
"heavy humor"
"a leaden conversation"
- adjective. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
"worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
"a grueling campaign"
- adjective. requiring or showing effort
"heavy breathing"
"the subject made for labored reading"
- adjective. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- adjective. full of; bearing great weight
"trees heavy with fruit"
"vines weighed down with grapes"
- adjective. sharply inclined
"a heavy grade"
- adjective. dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
"a heavy pudding"
- adjective. of comparatively great physical weight or density
"a heavy load"
"lead is a heavy metal"
- adjective. large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
"a heavy truck"
"heavy machinery"
- adjective. marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
"a heavy heart"
"a heavy schedule"
- adjective. unusually great in degree or quantity or number
"heavy taxes"
"a heavy fine"
- adjective. (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
"heavy hydrogen"
"heavy water"
- adjective. of great intensity or power or force
"a heavy blow"
"the fighting was heavy"
- adjective. slow and laborious because of weight
"the heavy tread of tired troops"
"moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"
- adjective. of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
"heavy artillery"
"heavy infantry"
- adjective. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
"grave responsibilities"
"faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"
- adjective. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
"a hard drinker"
- adjective. full and loud and deep
"heavy sounds"
"a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
- adjective. prodigious
"big spender"
"big eater"
- adjective. made of fabric having considerable thickness
"a heavy coat"
- adjective. of relatively large extent and density
"a heavy line"
- adjective. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
"dense smoke"
"heavy fog"
- adjective. (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
"Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"
- adverb. slowly as if burdened by much weight
"time hung heavy on their hands"
Synonyms
big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, lowering, sullen, threatening, clayey, cloggy, profound, sound, wakeless, leaden, arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in heavy:
Common word forms
heavier, heavies, heavily, heaviest
Words from these letters
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