Crossword clues for heavier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heavy \Heav"y\, a. [Compar. Heavier; superl. Heaviest.] [OE. hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel. h["o]figr, h["o]fugr. See Heave.]
Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.
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Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.
--1 Sam. v. 6.The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
--Shak.Sent hither to impart the heavy news.
--Wordsworth.Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.
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Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.
The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.
--Chapman.A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
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Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.
Whilst the heavy plowman snores.
--Shak.Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.
--Dryden.Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear.
--Is. lix. 1. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.
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Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.
But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more.
--Byron. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.
Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.
Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.
Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.
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With child; pregnant. [R.] Heavy artillery. (Mil.)
Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns.
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Troops which serve heavy guns.
Heavy cavalry. See under Cavalry.
Heavy fire (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms.
Heavy metal (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns.
Heavy metals. (Chem.) See under Metal.
Heavy weight, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. Feather weight
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, under Feather.
Note: Heavy is used in composition to form many words which need no special explanation; as, heavy-built, heavy-browed, heavy-gaited, etc.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativeheavy)
WordNet
See heavy
adj. of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture" [ant: light]
unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic" [ant: light]
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" [ant: light]
having or suggesting a viscous consistency; "heavy cream"
wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark" [syn: thick]
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" [ant: light]
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it [syn: fleshy, overweight]
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" [syn: clayey, cloggy]
darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: lowering, sullen, threatening]
of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas" [ant: light]
(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water" [ant: light]
(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; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" [syn: dense, impenetrable]
made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat"
of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker" [syn: hard(a)]
prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" [syn: big(a), heavy(a)]
full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" [syn: sonorous]
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" [syn: grave, grievous, weighty]
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" [syn: lumbering, ponderous]
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"; "vines weighed down with grapes" [syn: weighed down]
requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: labored, laboured]
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" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, punishing, toilsome]
lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" [syn: leaden]
(of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" [syn: profound, sound, wakeless]
in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)]
Usage examples of "heavier".
Where Kelly was dainty and slenderly built, Mike's features were heavier and his frame carried extra bulk.
It took more of an effort than breathing usually did but he was in a slightly heavier gravity than what he was used to.
Our world is much like this, gravity heavier and more water in many big pools.
He took careful note of the odd gait of the receiver--definitely an off-worlder, someone used to a heavier gravitational pull.
They were not, for one thing, indigenous to this world but came from a much heavier planet nearer galactic center.
Used to a much heavier gravity than Barevi, the Catteni were able to execute incredible maneu vers as they softened their prey for the kill.
So they positioned a sled with its nose well over the cave edge, secured by rope to the heavier craft so that the wind, now sweeping down over the cliffs, would blow the fungus away from their living quarters.
The heavier shuttle had to be turned, a maneuver Triv accomplished deftly, then it moved majestically from the cave, and rose with great dignity above the cliff.
The weather, one of the things that Lunzie had always loved about Astris Alexandria, was mild and warm most of the year in the University province, so she happily shed the heavier trousers she had worn on the transport, and laid out a light skirt.
All felt estranged from their lighter-boned distant relations, blamed the lightweights - at least in part - for that estrangement, and resented any suggestion that their larger size and heavier build implied less sensitivity or intelligence.
What with alloys and silicates and carbon-fibers and all, it's not much heavier than you are, even though it outmasses a softperson female of this type by a few kilos.
The light was harsh enough to make him squint and the gravity was tangibly heavier than Earth standard.
The two who had crashed into Peter had heavier fines and were given a six months' sentence for the grievous bodily harm of an unidentified diner.
Pienarr looked as if he had grabbed the first coverall to hand that morning, evidently from under a pile of heavier objects that had left creases in it.
Jeran and Cera serenely played some intricate game while a stream of toy bits and parts, and occasionally something heavier, was rained at them by an enraged Damia who was blubbering in fury.