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Heavy   /hˈɛvi/   Listen
adjective
Heavy  adj.  Having the heaves.


Heavy  adj.  (compar. heavier; superl. heaviest)  
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." "The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make." "Sent hither to impart the heavy news." "Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence."
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." "A light wife doth make a heavy husband."
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." "Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind." "Neither (is) his ear heavy, that it can not hear."
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."
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.


adverb
Heavy  adv.  Heavily; sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.


verb
Heavy  v. t.  To make heavy. (Obs.)





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"Heavy" Quotes from Famous Books



... one. With reference to the argument that the countries being divided we ought no longer to pay our share, Falck said the King of the Netherlands had not refused to pay on those grounds, that he had only (with reference to his heavy expenses) expressed his present inability and asked for time, which the Emperor of Russia had agreed to. What he meant was that the kingdoms were not as yet de jure separated, and that the casus had not yet arrived. This, however, ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville
... shining, white, sonorous metal, having a shade between silver and platinum. It is a very light metal, being lighter than glass and only about one-fourth as heavy as silver of the same bulk. It is very malleable and ductile, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, being unaffected by moist or dry air, or by hot or cold water. Sulphureted hydrogen gas, which so readily tarnishes silver, forming a black film on the surface, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various
... that they are not so? Fault is a heavy word. It includes generations in its pitiless entail. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof is but one side of the truth. No day is sufficient unto the evil thereof is the other. Each day has to bear burdens passed down from so many other days; ...
— Bits About Home Matters • Helen Hunt Jackson
... of an old woman, a relative, Dominica, who is living the most solitary life imaginable, in one of the tombs of the Campagna. Here there is a striking picture presented to the imagination—of the old woman and the little boy, shut up in the ruined tomb, in the almost tropical heat, or the heavy rains, that visit the Campagna. He who erewhile had visions of vestals and captive Jews, Caesar and the gladiators, is more naturally represented as amusing himself by floating sticks and reeds upon the little canal dug to carry the water from their dwelling;—"they ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... outstretched pinions grow Heavy with all the priceless gifts and graces God through thy ...
— Poems • Denis Florence MacCarthy


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