DEFINITIONadjective (heavier, heaviest)1 of great weight; difficult to lift or move: the pan was too heavy for me to carry.• used in questions about weight: how heavy is it?• [ attrib. ] (of a class of thing) above the average weight; large of its kind: heavy artillery.• [ predic. ] weighed down; full of something: branches heavy with blossoms.• (of a person's head or eyes) feeling weighed down by weariness: a heavy head.• Physics of or containing atoms of an isotope of greater than the usual mass. 2 of great density; thick or substantial: heavy gray clouds | a heavy blanket.• (of food or a meal) hard to digest; too filling.• (of ground or soil) hard to travel over or work with because muddy or full of clay.• not delicate or graceful; coarse: he had a big mustache and heavy features.• moving slowly or with difficulty: steering that is heavy when parking.• (of a smell) overpowering: the air was heavy with the sweet odor of apples.• (of the sky) full of dark clouds; oppressive: a heavy thundery sky.3 of more than the usual size, amount, or force: rush hour traffic was heavy and I was delayed.• doing something to excess: a heavy smoker.• (heavy on) using a lot of: stories heavy on melodrama.4 striking or falling with force: a heavy blow to the head | we had heavy overnight rain.• (of music, esp. rock) having a strong bass component and a forceful rhythm.5 needing much physical effort: long hours and heavy work.• mentally oppressive; hard to endure: a heavy burden of responsibility.• important or serious: a heavy discussion.• (of a literary work) hard to read or understand because overly serious or difficult.• feeling or expressing grief: I left him with a heavy heart.• informal (of a situation) serious and hard to deal with: things were getting pretty heavy.• informal (of a person) strict or harsh: the police were really getting heavy.
noun (pl. heavies)1 a thing, such as a vehicle, that is large or heavy of its kind.• informal a large, strong man, esp. one hired for protection: I needed money to pay off the heavies.• an important person: music business heavies.• (heavies) Brit. informal serious newspapers: reporters from the Sunday heavies.2 chiefly Scottish strong beer, esp. bitter: a pint of heavy.
adverbheavily: his words hung heavy in the air | [ in combination ] : heavy-laden.
PHRASES
heavy with child archaic pregnant.make heavy weather of.
DERIVATIVES
heaviness noun.heavyish adjective
ORIGIN Old English hefig, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hevig, also to heave.
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