noun
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
adjective
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usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it (syn: fleshy, overweight)-
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained (syn: clayey, cloggy)the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
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darkened by clouds (syn: lowering, sullen, threatening)a heavy sky
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(of an actor or role) being or playing the villainIago is the heavy role in 'Othello'
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permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter (syn: dense, impenetrable)heavy fog
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of relatively large extent and densitya heavy line
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made of fabric having considerable thicknessa heavy coat
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prodigious (syn: big)heavy investor
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full and loud and deep (syn: sonorous)heavy sounds
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given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors (syn: hard, intemperate)-
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought (syn: grave, grievous, weighty)heavy matters of state
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slow and laborious because of weight (syn: lumbering, ponderous)the heavy tread of tired troops
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large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough worka heavy truck
heavy machinery
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dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canala heavy pudding
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sharply inclineda heavy grade
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full of; bearing great weighttrees heavy with fruit
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requiring or showing effort (syn: labored, laboured)heavy breathing
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characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort (syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome)heavy work
heavy going
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lacking lightness or liveliness (syn: leaden)heavy humor
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(of sleep) deep and complete (syn: profound, sound, wakeless)a heavy sleep
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in an advanced stage of pregnancy (syn: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large)adverb
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slowly as if burdened by much weight (syn: heavily)time hung heavy on their hands
Extra examples
“Is that box too heavy for you to lift?” “No, it's not very heavy.”
The truck was carrying a heavy load.
The man was six feet tall with a heavy build.
Turnout for the election is expected to be heavy.
We got caught in heavy traffic.
Heavy rains caused flooding in the area.
She was wearing sunglasses and heavy makeup.
The storm caused heavy damage to the building.
The company is facing heavy losses this quarter.
The smoke hung heavy in the air.
He played the heavy in film after film.
The conference will be attended by several media heavies.
They have become one of the industry heavies.
The boy is so heavy he needs extra-large shirts.
She brought in a tray heavy with elegant sandwiches, scones and cakes.
Word forms
noun
singular: heavy
plural: heavies
adjective
comparative: heavier
superlative: heaviest
