Crossword clues for heaviest
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-superlativeheavy)
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 "heaviest".
Clodine held up the heaviest of the fifths, adjusting her eyesight to scrutinize the crystal.
There is already an established settlement with an immense grid to facilitate the landing of the heaviest ore freighters.
Not completely unprecedented, but among the heaviest numerically of instances on record.
Afra had forgotten how effortlessly she handled even the heaviest loads.
Taking from the same pocket a heavy compound knife of the kind favored by crystal singers for field use, he opened the heaviest cutting blade.
It was the ambition of every member, of Fleet and EEC, from the lowliest long-distance single scout to the commander of the heaviest battle cruiser, to discover the Nasties’ home world, and Captain Fargoe was scarcely an exception.
He put on his warmest underfur, heaviest tunic, pants and extra liners in his boots.
Evidently meals were reversed here in the Harper Craft Hall, with the heaviest meal in the middle of the day.
But he saw enough to realize that the delivery came from a variety of sources: tanner, weaver, smithcraft for the heaviest boxes, wine from many of the yards, but none, he was pleased to note, from Benden.
He had seen that supplies and enough rope and tackle to lift even the heaviest wagon from the riverbank were packed onto runners, and a half hour after Jayge came in, he was ready to ride out.
It was difficult for them to assimilate the fact that the Yokohama had been assembled in space at one of the old Earth's gigantic satellite shipyards, and that the heaviest portions had been pushed into position by single workers with computer-controlled machines.
I assume nothing and merely note the momentary absence of emissions that would positively identify the presence of Oroton's heaviest artillery.
I still face what is likely to be the heaviest combat I will encounter on this mission.
The hull steamrolling its way ahead of me takes massive abuse from plasma lances and the Yavacs' heaviest guns.
Barran's heavy-weapons bunker houses ten artillery field guns, lightly armored but fitted with 10cm mobile Hellbores, the heaviest weaponry on Jefferson, excluding myself.