Heavy Definition

hĕvē
heavier, heavies, heaviest
adjective
heavier, heaviest
Of high specific gravity; of concentrated weight for the size.
Webster's New World
Above the usual or defined weight.
Webster's New World
Large, as in number or quantity.
A heavy turnout; heavy casualties.
American Heritage
Hard to lift or move because of great weight; weighty.
Webster's New World
Large in yield or output.
Heavy rainfall.
American Heritage
adverb
Heavily.
Heavy-laden.
Webster's New World
Heavy laden with their sins.
Wiktionary

(India, colloquial) Very.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun
heavies
Something heavy.
Webster's New World
A serious, tragic, or villainous role.
Webster's New World
An actor who plays such roles.
Webster's New World
A villain in a story or play.
American Heritage
A mobster.
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Synonyms:
verb
(often with "up") To make heavier.
Wiktionary
To sadden.
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(Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.
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idiom
hang heavy
  • to pass tediously; drag
Webster's New World
heavy with child
  • pregnant
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Heavy

Noun

Singular:
heavy
Plural:
heavies, heavys

Adjective

Base Form:
heavy
Comparative:
heavier
Superlative:
heaviest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Heavy

Origin of Heavy

  • From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”), equivalent to heave +‎ -y. Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), Middle Low German hēvich (“violent, fierce, intense”), German hebig (cf. heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English hevi from Old English hefig kap- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • heave +‎ -y

    From Wiktionary

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