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HEAVY

1. [n] a serious (or tragic) role in a play

2. [n] an actor who plays villainous roles

3. [s] darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

4. [s] (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"

5. [s] (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"

6. [s] lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"

7. [s] characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "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

8. [s] requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"

9. [s] usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

10. [s] full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"

11. [s] sharply inclined; "a heavy grade"

12. [s] dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding"

13. [a] of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture"

14. [s] large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"

15. [a] marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"

16. [a] unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"

17. [a] (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water"

18. [a] of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"

19. [s] slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"

20. [a] of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such a

21. [s] of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "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"

22. [s] full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"

23. [s] used of syllables or musical beats

24. [s] of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"

25. [s] made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat"

26. [s] permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"

27. [s] having or suggesting a viscous consistency; "heavy cream"

28. [s] (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello''"

29. [s] wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark"

30. [r] slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands"

similar words

1. [a] cloudy

2. [a] compact

3. [a] deep

4. [a] dull

5. [a] effortful

6. [a] fat

7. [a] full

8. [a] steep

9. [a] indigestible

10. [s] dense

11. [s] doughy

12. [s] soggy

13. [s] heavier-than-air

14. [s] heavyweight

15. [s] hefty

16. [s] massive

17. [s] middleweight

18. [s] ponderous

19. [a] heavy-duty

20. [s] burdensome

21. [s] onerous

22. [s] taxing

23. [s] distressing

24. [s] distressful

25. [s] disturbing

26. [s] perturbing

27. [s] troubling

28. [s] worrisome

29. [s] worrying

30. [s] leaden

31. [s] weighted

32. [s] oppressive

33. [s] weighty

34. [s] harsh

35. [s] thick

36. [s] big

37. [a] heavy-footed

38. [a] important

39. [a] of_import

40. [a] full

41. [a] stressed

42. [a] intemperate

43. [a] thick

44. [a] thick

45. [a] wicked

46. [a] wide

47. [a] broad

opposite words

1. [a] light

2. [a] light

3. [a] light

4. [a] light

5. [a] light

6. [a] light

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