Definition of heavy

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• heavy is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 14
• heavy is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 14
• heavy is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 13

Definition of heavy

• slowly as if burdened by much weight (adverb)

  Examples

  1. time hung heavy on their hands

  Synonyms

  1. heavily
• lacking lightness or liveliness (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy humor

  Synonyms

  1. leaden
• slow and laborious because of weight (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the heavy tread of tired troops

  Synonyms

  1. lumbering
  2. ponderous
• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy matters of state

  Synonyms

  1. grave
  2. grievous
  3. weighty
• requiring or showing effort (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy breathing

  Synonyms

  1. labored
  2. laboured
• full of; bearing great weight (adjective)

  Examples

  1. trees heavy with fruit

  Synonyms

  1. weighed down
• prodigious (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy investor

  Synonyms

  1. big
• darkened by clouds (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy sky

  Synonyms

  1. lowering
  2. sullen
  3. threatening
• (used of soil) compact and fine-grained (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated

  Synonyms

  1. clayey
  2. cloggy
• in an advanced stage of pregnancy (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. big
  2. enceinte
  3. expectant
  4. gravid
  5. great
  6. large
  7. with child
• usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. fleshy
  2. overweight
• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy fog

  Synonyms

  1. dense
  2. impenetrable
• full and loud and deep (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy sounds

  Synonyms

  1. sonorous
• (of sleep) deep and complete (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy sleep

  Synonyms

  1. profound
  2. sound
  3. wakeless
• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. hard
  2. intemperate
• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy work
  2. heavy going

  Synonyms

  1. arduous
  2. backbreaking
  3. grueling
  4. gruelling
  5. hard
  6. laborious
  7. operose
  8. punishing
  9. toilsome
• an actor who plays villainous roles (noun)
• a serious (or tragic) role in a play (noun)
• dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy pudding
• large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy truck
  2. heavy machinery
• made of fabric having considerable thickness (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy coat
• marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy heart
  2. a heavy schedule
  3. heavy news
  4. a heavy silence
  5. heavy eyelids
• (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain (adjective)

  Examples

  1. Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'
• of comparatively great physical weight or density (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy load
  2. lead is a heavy metal
  3. heavy mahogany furniture
• of great intensity or power or force (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy blow
  2. the fighting was heavy
  3. heavy seas
• of relatively large extent and density (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy line
• (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy hydrogen
  2. heavy water
• sharply inclined (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a heavy grade
• unusually great in degree or quantity or number (adjective)

  Examples

  1. heavy taxes
  2. a heavy fine
  3. heavy casualties
  4. heavy losses
  5. heavy rain
  6. heavy traffic
• of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment ()

  Examples

  1. heavy artillery
  2. heavy infantry
  3. a heavy cruiser
  4. heavy guns
  5. heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries

See definition of heavy in Merriam Webster