heavies

heavy

• n.
  • an actor who plays villainous roles
  • a serious (or tragic) role in a play
• adj.
  • of comparatively great physical weight or density

    "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture"

  • unusually great in degree or quantity or number

    "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"

  • 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"

  • 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"

  • usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

    同义词：fleshyoverweight

  • (used of soil) compact and fine-grained

    "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"

    同义词：clayeycloggy

  • darkened by clouds

    "a heavy sky"

    同义词：loweringsullenthreatening

  • of great intensity or power or force

    "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"

  • (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight

    "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water"

  • (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

    "heavy fog"

    同义词：denseimpenetrable

  • of relatively large extent and density

    "a heavy line"

  • made of fabric having considerable thickness

    "a heavy coat"

  • prodigious

    "heavy investor"

    同义词：big(a)

  • full and loud and deep

    "heavy sounds"

    同义词：sonorous

  • given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

    同义词：intemperatehard

  • of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

    "heavy matters of state"

    同义词：gravegrievousweighty

  • slow and laborious because of weight

    "the heavy tread of tired troops"

    同义词：lumberingponderous

  • 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"

    同义词：weighed down

  • requiring or showing effort

    "heavy breathing"

    同义词：laboredlaboured

  • characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

    "heavy work"; "heavy going"

    同义词：arduousbackbreakinggruelinggruellinghardlaboriousoperosepunishingtoilsome

  • lacking lightness or liveliness

    "heavy humor"

    同义词：leaden

  • (of sleep) deep and complete

    "a heavy sleep"

    同义词：profoundsoundwakeless

  • in an advanced stage of pregnancy

    同义词：big(p)enceinteexpectantgravidgreat(p)large(p)with child(p)

• adv.slowly as if burdened by much weight

  "time hung heavy on their hands"

  同义词：heavily