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top-heavy
Alternative clues for the word top-heavy
Word definitions for top-heavy in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. unstable by being overloaded at the top
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the school district's top-heavy administration EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Britain has a particularly top-heavy industrial structure. ▪ How could I let my only boy on that top-heavy tub? ▪ The money is not for top-heavy ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from top (n.1) + heavy .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 having a high centre of gravity, and liable to topple 2 (context of an organization English) having an excessive number of administrators or managers
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Top-heavy \Top"-heav`y\, a. Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. --Sir H. Wotton.
Usage examples of top-heavy.
And before she had any time to prepare herself for it, there they stood on the embankment, with the Grand Canal opening resplendently before them in gleaming amorphous blues and greens and olives and silvers, and the tottering palace fronts of marble and inlay leaning over to look at their faces in it, and the mooring poles, top-heavy, striped, lantern-headed, bristling outside the doorways in the cobalt-shadowed water, and the sudden bunches of piles propped together like drunks holding one another up outside an English pub after closing time.
Not that she was bosomy or top-heavy, it was just that when all arranged, she made one eye-socking dish.
At the top of this curlicue stalk is a pod of a hundred or so bulbils, each one keen on sprouting into a new garlic plant when the top-heavy flower stalk falls over.
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
The dog was eight feet long and four feet high, very lumpily put together, the rolling, snapping head loosely joined to the top-heavy shoulders.
Steps through the wintry but snowless front garden with its top-heavy rosebushes wrapped for the whiter.
She is a ripe stalk planted in shallow soil, top-heavy, about to fall over roots-up.
Khalid called to me and introduced me to a sinewy old man who stood half-naked in the gloom, a filthy loin cloth round his waist and his headcloth wound in a great pile above his greying locks so that he looked top-heavy.
And before she had any time to prepare herself for it, there they stood on the embankment, with the Grand Canal opening resplendently before them in gleaming amorphous blues and greens and olives and silvers, and the tottering palace fronts of marble and inlay leaning over to look at their faces in it, and the mooring poles, top-heavy, striped, lantern-headed, bristling outside the doorways in the cobalt-shadowed water, and the sudden bunches of piles propped together like drunks holding one another up outside an English pub after closing time.
The menace of Stannall and Monsorlit completed the top-heavy pyramid of my anxiety.
The office had a scavenged look: mismatched desks and filing bins, and corkboards top-heavy with paper.
If such ones with hard, flat feet and top-heavy bodies can do it, there is no reason we all cannot.
The lumbering bagos and top-heavy four-wheelers form a moving slalom course for Him on his black motorcycle.
It was easy to pick out a sizable frawn herd at graze there, the curious loping gait of the animals making them seem almost top-heavy when they moved because of their heavily maned forequarters and high-held horned heads contrasted to the relatively weak nakedness of their sharply sloping hindquarters free of almost all but a tight fuzz of hair.
The cement truck drove like a pig, even with its multirange gearbox, top-heavy, slow to accelerate, and almost as slow to brake.