Unscramble heavies

Definition of heavy

adjective:

• of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load", "lead is a heavy metal", "heavy mahogany furniture". Antonyms: light.
• unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes", "a heavy fine", "heavy casualties", "heavy losses", "heavy rain", "heavy traffic". Antonyms: light.
• 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 as steel) used by other industries". Antonyms: light.
• 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". Antonyms: light.
• usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it. Synonyms: fleshy, overweight.
• (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated". Synonyms: clayey, cloggy.
• darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky". Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening.
• of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow", "the fighting was heavy", "heavy seas". Antonyms: light.
• (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen", "heavy water". Antonyms: light.
• (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'".
• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke", "heavy fog", "impenetrable gloom". Synonyms: dense, impenetrable.
• of relatively large extent and density; "a heavy line".
• made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat".
• prodigious; "big spender", "big eater", "heavy investor". Synonyms: big.
• full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds", "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice". Synonyms: sonorous.
• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker". Synonyms: hard, intemperate.
• 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". Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty.
• 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". Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous.
• large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck", "heavy machinery".
• dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding".
• sharply inclined; "a heavy grade".
• full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit", "vines weighed down with grapes". Synonyms: weighed down.
• requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing", "the subject made for labored reading". Synonyms: labored, laboured.
• characterized by 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 punishing pace". Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome.
• lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor", "a leaden conversation". Synonyms: leaden.
• (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep", "fell into a profound sleep", "a sound sleeper", "deep wakeless sleep". Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless.
• in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child", "was great with child". Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child.

adverb:

• slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands". Synonyms: heavily.

noun:

• an actor who plays villainous roles.
• a serious (or tragic) role in a play.

Words nearby

heady, heave, peavy.

Rhymes with

bevy, levee, levy.