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

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