Heavy

  • 31heavy — /ˈhɛvi / (say hevee) adjective (heavier, heaviest) 1. of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load. 2. of great amount, force, intensity, etc.: a heavy vote. 3. bearing hard upon; burdensome; harsh; distressing: heavy taxes. 4. having… …

  • 32heavy — adj., n., & adv. adj. (heavier, heaviest) 1 of great or exceptionally high weight; difficult to lift. 2 a of great density. b Physics having a greater than the usual mass (esp. of isotopes and compounds containing them). 3 abundant, considerable… …

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  • 33heavy — heav•y [[t]ˈhɛv i[/t]] adj. heav•i•er, heav•i•est, 1) of great weight: a heavy load[/ex] 2) of great amount, quantity, or size: a heavy vote[/ex] 3) of great force, intensity, or turbulence: heavy seas[/ex] 4) of more than the usual or average… …

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  • 34heavy*/*/*/ — [ˈhevi] adj 1) a heavy object weighs a lot Ant: light She was struggling with a heavy suitcase.[/ex] He was too heavy for the nurses to lift.[/ex] 2) used for saying that there is a lot of something, or that something is done a lot Traffic is… …

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  • 35heavy — An equities market now dominated by sellers, or oversupply, resulting in falling prices . Bloomberg Financial Dictionary See: overbought, resistance level, tired. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * heavy heav‧y [ˈhevi] adjective FINANCE if the… …

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  • 36heavy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. weighty, heavyset (See gravity); oppressive, tedious, tiresome; dull, gloomy, overcast; strong, pressing, large; somber, dismal, dejected, sad, melancholy; slow, inert, sluggish; grievous, serious.… …

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  • 37heavy — {{11}}heavy (adj.) O.E. hefig heavy, having much weight; important, grave; oppressive; slow, dull, from P.Gmc. *hafiga containing something; having weight (Cf. O.S., O.H.G. hebig, O.N. hofugr, M.Du. hevich, Du. hevig), from PIE *kap to grasp (see …

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  • 38heavy — adj. 1 weighing a lot VERBS ▪ be, feel, look, seem ▪ My suitcase was beginning to feel very heavy. ▪ become, get, grow …

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  • 39heavy — / hevi/ adjective 1. large or in large quantities ● a programme of heavy investment overseas ● He suffered heavy losses on the Stock Exchange. ● The government imposed a heavy tax on luxury goods. ♦ heavy costs or heavy expenditure large sums of… …

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  • 40heavy — 1. n. a villain. (Especially in movies, etc.) □ He is well known for playing heavies in the movies. □ Do I always have to be the heavy? 2. mod. important; profound; serious. □ This is a very heavy matter. □ …

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