<p><strong>adjective</strong></p><ul><li>heavier</li><li>heaviest</li><li>of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load</li><li>weighty, massive, ponderous</li><li>of great amount, quantity, or size; extremely large; massive: a heavy vote; a heavy snowfall</li><li>of great force, intensity, turbulence, etc.: a heavy sea</li><li>of more than the usual or average weight: a heavy person; heavy freight</li><li>having much weight in proportion to bulk; being of high specific gravity: a heavy metal</li><li>dense</li><li>of major import; grave; serious: a heavy offense</li><li>deep or intense; profound: a heavy thinker; heavy slumber</li><li>thickly armed or equipped with guns of large size</li><li>of the more powerful sizes: Compare heavy artillery</li><li>hard to bear; burdensome; harsh; oppressive: heavy taxes</li><li>difficult, cumbersome, grievous, onerous, severe</li><li>hard to cope with; trying; difficult: a heavy task</li><li>being as indicated to an unusually great degree: a heavy buyer</li><li>broad, thick, or coarse; not delicate: heavy lines drawn in charcoal</li><li>weighted or laden: air heavy with moisture</li><li>fraught; loaded; charged: words heavy with meaning</li><li>depressed with trouble or sorrow; showing sorrow; sad: a heavy heart</li><li>downhearted, downcast, despondent, dejected, mournful, gloomy</li><li>without vivacity or interest; ponderous; dull: a heavy style</li><li>boring, burdensome, wearisome, tiresome, tedious</li><li>slow in movement or action; clumsy: a heavy walk</li><li>lumbering, sluggish</li><li>loud and deep; sonorous: a heavy sound</li><li>(of the sky) overcast or cloudy</li><li>gloomy, lowering</li><li>exceptionally dense in substance; insufficiently raised or leavened; thick: heavy doughnuts</li><li>(of food) not easily digested</li><li>being in a state of advanced pregnancy; nearing childbirth: heavy with child; heavy with young</li><li>having a large capacity, capable of doing rough work, or having a large output: a heavy truck</li><li>producing or refining basic materials, as steel or coal, used in manufacturing: heavy industry</li><li>sober, serious, or somber: a heavy part in a drama</li><li>of or relating to an isotope of greater than normal atomic weight, as heavy hydrogen or heavy oxygen, or to a compound containing such an element, as heavy water</li><li>very good; excellent</li><li>very serious or important: a really heavy relationship</li><li>(of a syllable) stressed</li></ul><p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>plural heavies</li><li>a somber or ennobled theatrical role or character: Iago is the heavy in Othello</li><li>the theatrical role of a villain</li><li>an actor who plays a theatrical heavy</li><li>a gun of great weight or large caliber</li><li>a very important or influential person: a reception for government heavies</li></ul><p><strong>adverb</strong></p><ul><li>heavily</li></ul>