The noun heavy has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. heavy -- (an actor who plays villainous roles)
2. heavy -- (a serious (or tragic) role in a play)
Overview of adj heavy
The adj heavy has 27 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (32) heavy -- (of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture")
2. (10) heavy -- (unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic")
3. (5) heavy -- (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")
4. (2) heavy -- (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")
5. (1) fleshy, heavy, overweight -- (usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it)
6. (1) clayey, cloggy, heavy -- ((used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated")
7. (1) heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening -- (darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky")
8. heavy -- (of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas")
9. heavy -- ((physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water")
10. heavy -- ((of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'")
11. dense, heavy, impenetrable -- (permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom")
12. heavy -- (of relatively large extent and density; " a heavy line")
13. heavy -- (made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat")
15. heavy, sonorous -- (full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice")
16. intemperate, hard, heavy -- (given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker")
17. grave, grievous, heavy, weighty -- (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")
18. heavy, lumbering, ponderous -- (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")
19. heavy -- (large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery")
20. heavy -- (dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding")
21. heavy -- (sharply inclined; "a heavy grade")
22. heavy, weighed down -- (full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes")
23. heavy, labored, laboured -- (requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading")
24. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome -- (characterized by toilsome 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")
25. heavy, leaden -- (lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation")
26. heavy, profound, sound, wakeless -- ((of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep")
27. big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, heavy, with child -- (in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child")
Overview of adv heavy
The adv heavy has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. heavy, heavily -- (slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands")