Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having relatively great weight.
- adjective Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.
- adjective Large, as in number or quantity.
- adjective Large in yield or output.
- adjective Of great intensity.
- adjective Having great power or force.
- adjective Violent; rough.
- adjective Equipped with massive armaments and weapons.
- adjective Large enough to fire powerful shells.
- adjective Indulging to a great degree.
- adjective Involved or participating on a large scale.
- adjective Of great import or seriousness; grave.
- adjective Having considerable thickness.
- adjective Broad or coarse.
- adjective Dense; thick.
- adjective Slow to dissipate; strong.
- adjective Too dense or rich to digest easily.
- adjective Insufficiently leavened.
- adjective Full of clay and readily saturated.
- adjective Weighed down; burdened.
- adjective Emotionally weighed down; despondent.
- adjective Marked by or exhibiting weariness.
- adjective Sad or painful.
- adjective Hard to do or accomplish; arduous.
- adjective Not easily borne; oppressive.
- adjective Lacking vitality; deficient in vivacity or grace.
- adjective Sharply inclined; steep.
- adjective Having a large capacity or designed for rough work.
- adjective Of, relating to, or involving the large-scale production of basic products, such as steel.
- adjective Of or relating to a serious dramatic role.
- adjective Physics Of or relating to an isotope with an atomic mass greater than the average mass of that element.
- adjective Loud; sonorous.
- adjective Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a syllable ending in a long vowel or in a vowel plus two consonants.
- adjective Of great significance or profundity.
- adjective Very popular or important.
- adverb Heavily.
- noun A serious or tragic role in a play.
- noun An actor playing such a role.
- noun Slang A villain in a story or play.
- noun Slang A mobster.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The sentence = _Gold is heavy beyond the degree in which iron is heavy_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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_duple_; the alternation of heavy and light pulses is regular; and therefore the third beat is again an accent, as well as the first, though _less heavy_.
Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Percy Goetschius 1898
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She's heavy artillery; and I mean _heavy_, believe me! "
Masters of Space Robert Lee [Illustrator] Berry 1925
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“The term heavy metal has become such a wide label,” Ratt bassist Juan Croucier said as early as 1985.
Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2003
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It's a curious irony that the term "heavy- weight" has been applied to Chris Patten's appointment as the new chair of the BBC Trust Patten to be named BBC Trust chair, 19 February, as it would seem the other possible candidates lacked such an accolade.
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He represents the pinnacle of hard rock before the term heavy metal existed
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He represents the pinnacle of hard rock before the term heavy metal existed.
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A rebel fighter told al Jazeera TV that his men surrounded the border post during the night and captured it after what he described as heavy fighting.
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A rebel fighter told al Jazeera TV that his men surrounded the border post during the night and captured it after what he described as heavy fighting.
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A rebel fighter told al Jazeera TV that his men surrounded the border post during the night and captured it after what he described as heavy fighting.
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There is no universally accepted definition of a heavy metal, but most lists include lead, mercury, chromium, arsenic and cadmium.
Why chemical pollution is turning into a third great planetary crisis #author.fullName} 2021
crunchysaviour commented on the word heavy
I enjoy hearing this word used to describe sounds or events: "Suddenly, there was a heavy explosion. The ground heaved. Windows shattered."
August 8, 2008