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heavy

English

  1. 🔊 darkened by clouds
    “a heavy sky”
  2. 🔊 (of sleep) deep and complete
    “a heavy sleep”
  3. 🔊 lacking lightness or liveliness
    “heavy humor”
  4. 🔊 requiring or showing effort
    “heavy breathing”
  5. 🔊 full of
    “trees heavy with fruit”
  6. 🔊 sharply inclined
    “a heavy grade”
  7. 🔊 dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
    “a heavy pudding”
  8. 🔊 of comparatively great physical weight or density
    “a heavy load”
  9. 🔊 large and powerful
    “a heavy truck”
  10. 🔊 marked by great psychological weight
    “a heavy heart”
  11. 🔊 unusually great in degree or quantity or number
    “heavy taxes”
  12. 🔊 (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
    “heavy hydrogen”
  13. 🔊 of great intensity or power or force
    “a heavy blow”
  14. 🔊 slow and laborious because of weight
    “the heavy tread of tired troops”
  15. 🔊 of the military or industry
    “heavy artillery”
  16. 🔊 full and loud and deep
    “heavy sounds”
  17. 🔊 made of fabric having considerable thickness
    “a heavy coat”
  18. 🔊 of relatively large extent and density
    “a heavy line”
  19. 🔊 (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
    “Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'”
  20. 🔊 usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
  21. 🔊 permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
    “dense smoke”
  22. 🔊 (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
    “the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated”
  23. 🔊 of great gravity or crucial import
    “grave responsibilities”
  24. 🔊 given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
    “a hard drinker”
  25. 🔊 characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
    “worked their arduous way up the mining valley”
  26. 🔊 a serious (or tragic) role in a play
  27. 🔊 an actor who plays villainous roles
  28. 🔊 slowly as if burdened by much weight
    “time hung heavy on their hands”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 abrupto heavy
  2. 🔊 gravoso heavy
  3. 🔊 grĂ¡vido heavy
  4. 🔊 ponderoso heavy
  5. 🔊 amazacotado heavy, thick
  6. 🔊 contundente heavy, severe

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