heavy
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
entertainment
finance
government
journalism
lifestyle
media
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
politics
theater
transport
war
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)).
Base: heave
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: heavier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: heaviest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more heavy
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most heavy
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: heavies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heavys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heavies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heavying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heavied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heavied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having great weight.
pos: adj
examples: Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.
Use the scales to measure how heavy it is.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.
In other research, scientists have found that people who kept cereal out in the open were often about 20 pounds heavier than people who kept cereal behind closed doors.
gloss: Having great weight.
pos: adj
examples: When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit.
gloss: Serious, somber.
pos: adj
examples: "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."
gloss: Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
pos: adj
examples: heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.
The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
Sent hither by my Husband to impart the heavy news.
gloss: Good.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dated
slang
examples: This film is heavy.
gloss: Profound.
pos: adj
tags: US
dated
examples: The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.
gloss: High, great.
pos: adj
examples: 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
gloss: Armed.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Come heavy, or not at all.
gloss: Loud, distorted, or intense.
pos: adj
examples: Metal is heavier than rock.
gloss: Hot and humid.
pos: adj
gloss: Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
pos: adj
examples: This car is too heavy on gas.
He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.
He was described in the theatrical prints as the “veteran Blenkinsop”—“the useful Blenkinsop”—“that old favourite of the public, Blenkinsop”—those parts in the drama, which are called the heavy fathers, were usually assigned to this veteran, who, indeed, acted the heavy father in public, as in private life.
gloss: With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
pos: adj
examples: Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes.
gloss: High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
pos: adj
examples: Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.
gloss: Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
pos: adj
examples: it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch
The surf was not heavy, and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing.
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
pos: adj
examples: his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child
The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / (Such places heavy Saturnists doe crave,) / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]
gloss: Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
pos: adj
examples: a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
a heavy writer or book
whilst the heavy ploughman snores
a heavy, dull, degenerate mind
Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
gloss: Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
a heavy road; a heavy soil
gloss: Not raised or leavened.
pos: adj
examples: heavy bread
gloss: Having much body or strength.
pos: adj
gloss: With child; pregnant.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
pos: adj
gloss: Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
pos: adj
examples: The very low prices of brandy, and the continuance of a heavy market for such a length of time, have begun to attract buyers; […]
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.
gloss: Heavily-armed.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
pos: adj
examples: In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”
gloss: In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
pos: adv
examples: Heavy-laden with their sins, time hung heavy
gloss: To a great degree; greatly.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
examples: Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy.
gloss: very
pos: adv
tags: India
colloquial
gloss: A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
gloss: A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
gloss: A prominent figure; a "major player".
pos: noun
examples: A collection of topical themes and love songs, featuring session work by women's music "heavies" Holly Near, Mary Watkins, Linda Tillery, Robin Flower, and others.
gloss: A newspaper of the quality press.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.
Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation.
gloss: A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers.
A 76 Squadron pilot who later completed a second tour on Mosquitoes said that his colleagues on the light bombers “simply could never understand how awful being on heavies was.”
gloss: A serious theatrical role.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
examples: Payton boasted his range included "leading parts or genteel heavies, character old men, dialect parts, old women and, on occasion, soubrettes and leading ladies"; however, he was most at ease in light comedy roles.
gloss: A member of the heavy cavalry.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Cavalry […] is divided into mediums, heavies, and light cavalry. The mediums consist of 13 regiments; the heavies of 2 regiments; and the light of 13.
gloss: To make heavier.
pos: verb
tags: often
examples: They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.
gloss: To sadden.
pos: verb
gloss: To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
examples: The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.
[…]the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.
2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557,
But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone′s tapped. Well, he won′t find anything.
2005, David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005, Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421,
But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.
Synonyms: sweer
swear
Antonyms: light
Related words: heave
heft
Derived words: as heavy as a dead donkey
heavier-than-air
heavily
heaviness
heavisome
heavy-armed
heavy artillery
heavy as a dead donkey
heavy-bearded
heavy bomber
heavy bread
heavy breather
heavy breathing
heavy-browed
heavy cavalry
heavy chain
heavy chemicals
heavy client
heavy-coated
heavy cream
heavy cross to bear
heavy cruiser
heavy date
heavy drinker
heavy drinking
heavy-duty
heavy duty
heavy-duty vehicle
heavy earth
heavy element
heavy equipment
heavyeyed
heavy fermion
heavy foot
heavy-foot
heavy-footed
heavy-footed moa
heavy frigate
heavy glass
heavy going
heavy goods vehicle
heavy-handed
heavy-handedly
heavy-handedness
heavy-headed
heavy heart
heavyhearted
heavy-hearted
heavy-heartedly
heavy-heartedness
heavy hitter
heavy-hitter
heavy hydrogen
heavy ice
heavy icebreaker
heavy industry
heavy infantry
heavy ion
heavyish
heavy legs
heavy-lidded
heavy-lift
heavy lift
heavy-lifting
heavy lifting
heavy machine gun
heavy machinery
heavy man
heavy marching order
heavy metal
heavy metally
heavy metal umlaut
heavy middleweight
heavy mineral
heavy mob
heavy oil
heavy particle
heavy petting
heavy piece
heavy plough
heavy rail
heavy rock
heavy roller
heavy-set
heavyset
heavy sink
heavy spar
heavy swell
heavy tail
heavy-tailed
heavy tank
heavy vehicle
heavy-water
heavy water
heavyweight
heavy wet
heavy wetter
heavy with child
hot and heavy
hyperheavy
jug-heavy
Late Heavy Bombardment
make heavy going of
make heavy weather
make heavy weather of
nonheavy
overheavy
semi-heavy water
semiheavy water
superheavy
super-heavy
super heavy
super-heavy frigate
super heavy water
super-heavy water
time hangs heavy
top-heavy
top-heavy fraction
top-heavy with drink
ultraheavy
unheavy
wee heavy
hang heavy
heavy-laden
brain heavy
dog heavy
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: ахьанҭа
roman: axʲanta
lang: Afrikaans
word: swaar
lang: Akkadian
word: kabtum
lang: Akkadian
word: kabittum
lang: Akkadian
word: kabūtum
lang: Akkadian
word: kabtātum
lang: Aklanon
word: mabug-at
lang: Albanian
word: rëndë
lang: Gheg Albanian
word: ran
lang: Guerrero Amuzgo
word: ja
lang: Andi
word: гьокӏору
roman: hokʼoru
lang: Arabic
word: ثَقِيل
roman: ṯaqīl
lang: Arabic
word: تقيل
roman: te'ʔīl
lang: Arabic
word: ثقيل
roman: tagīl, ṯagīl
lang: Arabic
word: تْقيل
roman: tqil
lang: Arabic
word: تقيل
roman: tʔīl
lang: Arabic
word: تقيل
roman: tʔīl
lang: Armenian
word: ծանր
roman: canr
lang: Aromanian
word: greu
lang: Assamese
word: গধুৰ
roman: godhur
lang: Assamese
word: ভাৰী
roman: bhari
lang: Asturian
word: pesáu
lang: Avar
word: бакӏаб
roman: bakʼab
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ağır
lang: Bangi
word: -lito
lang: Bashkir
word: ауыр
roman: awır
lang: Basque
word: astun
lang: Belarusian
word: ця́жкі́
roman: cjážkí
lang: Belarusian
word: цяжкі́́
roman: cjažkí́
lang: Belarusian
word: ва́жкі
roman: vážki
lang: Bengali
word: ভারী
roman: bhari
lang: Central Bikol
word: magabat
lang: Breton
word: ponner
lang: Bulgarian
word: те́жък
roman: téžǎk
lang: Burmese
word: လေး
roman: le:
lang: Burmese
word: လေးလံ
roman: le:lam
lang: Buryat
word: хүндэ
roman: xünde
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: тяжкый
roman: tjažkŷj
lang: Catalan
word: feixuc
lang: Catalan
word: pesant
lang: Cebuano
word: bug-at
lang: Chamicuro
word: pwawa
lang: Chechen
word: деза
roman: deza
lang: Chechen
word: еза
roman: jeza
lang: Chepang
word: लीःसा
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎦᎨᏓ
roman: gageda
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 重
roman: cung³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 重
roman: zhòng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 沉重
roman: chénzhòng
lang: Chuvash
word: йывӑр
roman: jyvăr
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: -dziro
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: ağır
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: avur
lang: Czech
word: těžký
lang: Dalmatian
word: pesaint
lang: Danish
word: tung
lang: Dutch
word: zwaar
lang: Erzya
word: стака
roman: staka
lang: Esperanto
word: peza
lang: Estonian
word: raske
lang: Even
word: ургэ
roman: urgə
lang: Evenki
word: ургэ
roman: urgə
lang: Faroese
word: tungur
lang: Finnish
word: painava
lang: Finnish
word: raskas
lang: French
word: lourd
lang: French
word: pesant
lang: West-Frisian
word: swier
lang: Friulian
word: grivi
lang: Friulian
word: pesant
lang: Gagauz
word: aar
lang: Galician
word: pesado
lang: Georgian
word: მძიმე
roman: mʒime
lang: German
word: schwer
lang: Greek
word: βαρύς
roman: varýs
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βαρύς
roman: barús
lang: Haitian Creole
word: lou
lang: Hawaiian
word: kaumaha
lang: Hebrew
word: כָּבֵד
roman: kavéd
lang: Higaonon
word: mabug-at
lang: Hiligaynon
word: mabug-at
lang: Hindi
word: भारा
roman: bhārā
lang: White Hmong
word: nyhav
lang: Hungarian
word: nehéz
lang: Icelandic
word: þungur
lang: Ido
word: grava
lang: Ilocano
word: nadagas
lang: Ilocano
word: nadagsen
lang: Indonesian
word: berat
lang: Ingush
word: деза
roman: deza
lang: Ingush
word: еза
roman: jeza
lang: Irish
word: trom
lang: Old Irish
word: trom
lang: Italian
word: pesante
lang: Japanese
word: 重い
roman: omoi
lang: Javanese
word: abot
lang: Old Javanese
word: bot
lang: Kaitag
word: декӏ
roman: deḳ
lang: Kapampangan
word: mabayat
lang: Kashubian
word: cãżczi
lang: Kazakh
word: ауыр
roman: auyr
lang: Khmer
word: ធ្ងន់
roman: thngŭən
lang: Korean
word: 무겁다
roman: mugeopda
lang: Central Kurdish
word: قورس
roman: qurs
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: giran
lang: Kyrgyz
word: оор
roman: oor
lang: Ladino
word: pezgado
lang: Lao
word: ຫນັກ
roman: nak
lang: Lao
word: ໜັກ
roman: nak
lang: Latin
word: gravis
lang: Latvian
word: smags
lang: Lingala
word: zito
lang: Lithuanian
word: sunkus
lang: Luxembourgish
word: schwéier
lang: Macedonian
word: тежок
roman: težok
lang: Malagasy
word: mavesatra
lang: Malay
word: berat
lang: Manchu
word: ᡠᠵᡝᠨ
roman: ujen
lang: Western Bukidnon Manobo
word: meveɣat
lang: Mansaka
word: bugat
lang: Marathi
word: जड
roman: j̈aḍ
lang: Central Melanau
word: baat
lang: Middle English
word: hevy
lang: Minangkabau
word: barek
lang: Moksha
word: стака
roman: staka
lang: Mongolian
word: хүнд
roman: xünd
lang: Nanai
word: хуйгэ
roman: hujge
lang: Navajo
word: nisdaaz
lang: Navajo
word: ndaaz
lang: Neapolitan
word: pesante
lang: Norman
word: b'sant
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tung
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vektig
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tung
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vektig
lang: Occitan
word: pesuc
lang: Odia
word: ଭାରି
roman: bhāri
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: тѧжькъ
roman: tęžĭkŭ
lang: Old English
word: hefiġ
lang: Old English
word: pīs
lang: Old English
word: swǣr
lang: Old Norse
word: þungr
lang: Oromo
word: ulfaataa
lang: Ossetian
word: уӕззау
roman: wæzzaw
lang: Papiamentu
word: pisá
lang: Pashto
word: دروند
roman: drund
lang: Persian
word: سنگین
roman: sangin
lang: Piedmontese
word: gravos
lang: Plautdietsch
word: schwoa
lang: Polish
word: ciężki
lang: Portuguese
word: pesado
lang: Quechua
word: llasaq
lang: Rapa Nui
word: pagaha'a
lang: Rohingya
word: bór
lang: Romani
word: pharo
lang: Romanian
word: greu
lang: Romansh
word: grev
lang: Romansh
word: greiv
lang: Romansh
word: greav
lang: Romansh
word: pesant
lang: Romansh
word: pesont
lang: Romansh
word: pasànt
lang: Romansh
word: pasant
lang: Russian
word: тяжёлый
roman: tjažólyj
lang: Russian
word: тя́жкий
roman: tjážkij
lang: Sanskrit
word: गुरु
roman: guru
lang: Santali
word: ᱚᱡᱚᱨ
roman: ôjôr
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: trom
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: те́жак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: téžak
lang: Shor
word: аар
roman: aar
lang: Sicilian
word: pisanti
lang: Sikkimese
word: ལྕི་པོ
roman: lci po
lang: Slovak
word: ťažký
lang: Slovene
word: težek
lang: Somali
word: culus
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: śěžki
lang: Spanish
word: pesado
lang: Spanish
word: onusto
lang: Sundanese
word: abot
lang: Swahili
word: zito
lang: Swedish
word: tung
lang: Tagalog
word: mabigat
lang: Tajik
word: вазнин
roman: vaznin
lang: Tajik
word: сангин
roman: sangin
lang: Tajik
word: гарон
roman: garon
lang: Tarantino
word: pesande
lang: Tatar
word: авыр
roman: awır
lang: Tausug
word: mabuggat
lang: Telugu
word: బరువైన
roman: baruvaina
lang: Tetum
word: todan
lang: Thai
word: หนัก
roman: nàk
lang: Tibetan
word: ལྗིད་པོ
roman: ljid po
lang: Turkish
word: ağır
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آغر
roman: ağır
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: وزین
roman: vezin
lang: Turkmen
word: agyr
lang: Tuvan
word: аар
roman: aar
lang: Ukrainian
word: важки́й
roman: važkýj
lang: Urdu
word: بھاری
roman: bhārī
lang: Uyghur
word: ئېغىر
roman: ëghir
lang: Uzbek
word: ogʻir
lang: Uzbek
word: vazmin
lang: Venetan
word: pexante
lang: Vietnamese
word: nặng
lang: Walloon
word: pezant
lang: Walloon
word: ploncasse
lang: Welsh
word: trwm
lang: Yakut
word: ыарахан
roman: ïaraqan
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: aal
lang: Zazaki
word: gıran (diq)
lang: Zealandic
word: zwaer
lang: Zhuang
word: naek