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heavy

adjective
  1. Having a relatively great weight: heavyweight, hefty, massive, ponderous, weighty. See heavy
  2. Unwieldy or clumsy, especially due to excess weight: cumbersome, cumbrous, lumpish, lumpy, ponderous. See easy, heavy
  3. Having a large body, especially in girth: bulky, hefty, hulking, hulky, husky 2, stout. See big
  4. Characterized by abundance: abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, generous, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, substantial, voluminous. See big, give, rich
  5. Intensely sustained, especially in activity: concentrated, fierce, heightened, intense, intensive. See strong
  6. Conveying great physical force: hard, hefty, powerful, severe. See big
  7. Intensely violent in sustained velocity: fierce, furious, high, strong. See strong
  8. Violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms: dirty, raging, roiled, roily, rough, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, ugly, violent, wild. See calm
  9. Indulging in drink to an excessive degree: hard. Informal: two-fisted. See excess
  10. Having great consequence or weight: earnest 1, grave 2, momentous, serious, severe, weighty. See important
  11. Having a dense or viscous consistency: gelatinous, stodgy, thick. See solid
  12. Not readily digested because of richness: rich. See ingestion
  13. Growing profusely: dense, lush 1, luxuriant, profuse, rank 2, thick. See big
  14. Burdened by a weighty load: heavy-laden, laden, loaded. See full
  15. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See heavy
  16. Slang. Beyond the understanding of an average mind: abstruse, deep, esoteric, profound, recondite. See easy, surface
noun
Slang. A mean, worthless character in a story or play: villain. See right

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