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