heaviness Definition

heavy
adj heavier, heaviest

1. Having great weight.
2. Said of breathing: loud, because of excitement, exhaustion, etc.
3. Great in amount, size, power, etc.

Example: heavy traffic
Example: a heavy crop
Thesaurus: weighty, considerable, ample, copious, cumbersome, unwieldy, dense, laden; portly, stout, corpulent, beefy (slang), chunky (slang); Antonym: light, buoyant.
4. Great in amount, frequency, etc.

Example: a heavy drinker
5. Considerable.

Example: heavy emphasis
6. Hard to bear, endure or fulfil.

Example: a heavy fate
Thesaurus: oppressive, burdensome, onerous, vexatious, hard, arduous, taxing, exhausting.
7. Ungraceful and coarse.

Example: heavy features
8. Severe, intense or excessive.

Example: heavy fighting
9. Sad or dejected.

Example: with a heavy heart
Example: heavy-hearted
Thesaurus: sad, discouraged, downcast, forlorn, glum, heartsick, miserable, morose, mournful, sorrowful.
10. Said of food: difficult to digest.

Example: a heavy meal
11. Having a great or relatively high density. Compare heavy metal.

Example: a heavy metal
12. Striking or falling with force; powerful.

Example: heavy rain
13. Forceful or powerful.

Example: a heavy sea
14. Intense or deep.

Example: a heavy sleep
15. Said of the sky: dark and cloudy.
16. Needing a lot of physical or mental effort.
17a. Said of literature, music, etc: serious in tone and content;

Thesaurus: grave, serious, solemn, dull, depressing, melancholy; Antonym: trivial, light.
17b. Said of literature, music, etc: not immediately accessible or appealing.

Thesaurus: complex, difficult, dense, hard-going.
18. Physically and mentally slow.
19. Fat; solid.
20. Said of soil: wet and soft due to its high clay content.
21. colloq
Strict; severe.
Example: Don't be heavy on him
22a. military.
Equipped with powerful weapons, armour, etc;
22b. military.
Said of guns: large and powerful.
23. Said of cakes and bread: dense through not having risen enough.

noun heavies

1. slang
A large, violent and usually not very intelligent man.
Example: They sent in the heavies
2. A villain in a play, film, etc.
(Scots)
3. A beer like bitter but darker in colour and gassier.
4. Serious newspapers.

Form: the heavies (usually)

adverb

1. Heavily.

Example: Time hangs heavy on my hands
2. With a heavy burden.

Example: heavy-laden

Derivative: heavily

In a heavy way; with or as if with weight.
Thesaurus: awkwardly, ponderously, laboriously; Antonym: easily, gently, lightly.

Intensely, severely or violently.
Thesaurus: considerably, decisively, thoroughly, massively, strongly, profoundly.

Derivative: heaviness
noun

The state of being very heavy or bulky
Thesaurus: weightiness, heftiness, ponderousness, gravity, bulkiness; ballast, burden.

noun

Sadness or dejection
Thesaurus: oppression, despondency, languor, melancholy, numbness, somnolence, torpor; Antonym: sprightliness, liveliness.

Idiom: make heavy weather of something

To experience great difficulty in doing something, or exaggerate the difficulties involved in it.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hefig.