'Heavy' definitions:

Slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands" [syn: heavy, heavily]

Of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture" [ant: light]

Unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic" [ant: light]

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" [ant: light]

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" [ant: light]

Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it [syn: fleshy, heavy, overweight]

(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" [syn: clayey, cloggy, heavy]

Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening]

Of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas" [ant: light]

(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water" [ant: light]

(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"

Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" [syn: dense, heavy, impenetrable]

Of relatively large extent and density; "a heavy line"

Made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat"

Prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" [syn: big(a), heavy(a)]

Full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" [syn: heavy, sonorous]

Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker" [syn: intemperate, hard, heavy]

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" [syn: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty]

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" [syn: heavy, lumbering, ponderous]

Large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"

Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding"

Sharply inclined; "a heavy grade"

Full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes" [syn: heavy, weighed down]

Requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: heavy, labored, laboured]

Characterized by 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" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]

Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" [syn: heavy, leaden]

(of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" [syn: heavy, profound, sound, wakeless]

In an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)]

An actor who plays villainous roles

A serious (or tragic) role in a play