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Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll[noun] an actor who plays villainous roles
[adv] slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands"
[adjective] darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"
[adjective] (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
[adjective] (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
[adjective] lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"
[adjective] characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
[adjective] requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
[adjective] usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
[adjective] full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"
[adjective] sharply inclined; "a heavy grade"
[adjective] dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding"
[adjective] of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture"
[adjective] large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"
[adjective] marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"
[adjective] unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"
[adjective] (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water"
[adjective] of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"
[adjective] slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
[adjective] of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries"
[adjective] of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
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\Heav"y\, a. [Compar. {Heavier}; superl. {Heaviest}.] [OE. hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel. h["o]figr, h["o]fugr. See {Heave}.] 1. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught. 2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc. The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod. --1 Sam. v. 6. The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make. --Shak. Sent hither to impart the heavy news. --Wordsworth. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence. --Shak. 3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment. The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were. --Chapman. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. --Shak. 4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. --Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. --Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. --Is. lix. 1. 5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like. 6. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder. But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more. --Byron. 7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky. 8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like. 9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread. 10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food. 11. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors. 12. With child; pregnant. [R.] {Heavy artillery}. (Mil.)
(a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns.
(b) Troops which serve heavy guns. {Heavy cavalry}. See under {Cavalry}. {Heavy fire} (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. {Heavy metal} (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns. {Heavy metals}. (Chem.) See under {Metal}. {Heavy weight}, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. {Feather weight}
(c), under {Feather}. Note: Heavy is used in composition to form many words which need no special explanation; as, heavy-built, heavy-browed, heavy-gaited, etc.
\Heav"y\, adv. Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.
\Heav"y\, v. t. To make heavy. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
Synonyms for heavy
arduous, big, clayey, cloudy, dense, disturbing, doughy, dull, fat, fleshy, gruelling, heavy-duty, impenetrable, important, indigestible, labored, laboured, middleweight, of import, oppressive, overweight, perturbing, ponderous, sound, sullen, taxing, toilsome, troubling, weighty, worrisome
Antonyms: light
See also: actor | character | histrion | part | persona | player | role | role player | theatrical role | thespian |
Related terms: bleak, cast, cataleptic, chubby, crucial, dead, downcast, drowsy, endowed with beauty, etiolated, fateful, graceful, heavy with child, irresistible, jungly, laden, narcous, pallid, pantomimist, pitch, player, pretty, sad-faced, smashing, sterile, strong, syrupy, unhandy, voiceless, weightily
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Let's analyse "heavy" as pure text. This string has Five letters in Two syllables and Two vowels (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: YVAEH. Average typing speed for these characters is 1385 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
heavy: 5 + 1 = 6, reduced: 6 (or 4 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is Six. |
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