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(adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands" |
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Synonyms: heavily |
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(satellite adjective) darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" |
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Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening |
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(satellite adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" |
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Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless |
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(satellite adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" |
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Synonyms: leaden |
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(satellite adjective) requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" |
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Synonyms: labored, laboured |
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(satellite adjective) full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes" |
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Synonyms: weighed down |
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(satellite adjective) sharply inclined; "a heavy grade" |
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(satellite adjective) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding" |
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(adjective) of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture" |
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Antonyms: light |
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(satellite adjective) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery" |
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(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" |
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Antonyms: light |
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(adjective) unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic" |
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Antonyms: light |
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(adjective) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water" |
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Antonyms: light |
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(adjective) of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas" |
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Antonyms: light |
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(satellite 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" |
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Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous |
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(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" |
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Antonyms: light |
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(satellite adjective) full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" |
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Synonyms: sonorous |
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(satellite adjective) made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat" |
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(satellite adjective) having or suggesting a viscous consistency; "heavy cream" |
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(satellite adjective) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'" |
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(satellite adjective) wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark" |
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Synonyms: thick |
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(noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play |
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Related Words: character, part, persona, role, theatrical role |
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(noun) an actor who plays villainous roles |
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Related Words: actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian |
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(satellite adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it |
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Synonyms: fleshy, overweight |
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(satellite adjective) used of syllables |
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Synonyms: accented, strong |
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(satellite adjective) prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" |
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Synonyms: big |
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(satellite adjective) of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker" |
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Synonyms: hard |
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(satellite adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" |
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Synonyms: dense, impenetrable |
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(satellite adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" |
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Synonyms: clayey, cloggy |
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(satellite 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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Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty |
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(satellite 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" |
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Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, labourious, punishing, toilsome |
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(satellite adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" |
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Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child |
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