Word: heavy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Equivalent to heave + -y. Related to have. Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”). Compare typologically Russian объёмный (obʺjómnyj), ёмкий (jómkij) (akin to име́ть (imétʹ), взять (vzjatʹ)). Pronunciation: /ˈhɛv.i/, /ˈhev.i/ 1. Having great weight. Example: Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy. Example: Use the scales to measure how heavy it is. 2. Having great weight. Example: When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit. 3. Serious, somber. Example: "We're still in an existential-stakes war with the Pa'anuri, and possibly with our own destructive tendencies." ' "Sorry. That was pretty heavy for someone who just woke up." "Oh, I'm fine. Waking up alive has ALWAYS meant spending the day trying not to be dead." 4. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive. Example: heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc. Example: The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod. 5. Good. Labels: UK, dated, slang Example: This film is heavy. 6. Profound. Labels: US, dated Example: The Moody Blues are, like, heavy. 7. High, great. Example: 1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs 8. Armed. Labels: slang Example: Come heavy, or not at all. 9. Loud, distorted, or intense. Example: Metal is heavier than rock. 10. Hot and humid. 11. Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people. Example: This car is too heavy on gas. Example: He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband. 12. With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness. Example: Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes. 13. High in fat or protein; difficult to digest. Example: Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising. 14. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense. Example: it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch Example: The surf was not heavy, and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing. 15. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc. Example: his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child Example: The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were. 16. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid. Example: a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc. Example: a heavy writer or book 17. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey. Example: The next day we only made some eight miles, as the road was heavy beyond all belief. It lay through a desert region of country which was ancle-deep ^([sic]) in soda and alkali dust. Example: a heavy road; a heavy soil 18. Not raised or leavened. Example: heavy bread 19. Having much body or strength. 20. With child; pregnant. Labels: obsolete 21. Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one. 22. Of petroleum, having high viscosity. 23. Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining. Example: The very low prices of brandy, and the continuance of a heavy market for such a length of time, have begun to attract buyers; […] Example: The oil market is heavy, each day bringing along further supplies of shares from people who have not tired of the long-continued decline in the market. 24. Heavily-armed. 25. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload. 26. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload. Example: In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”