📒 weighing a lot; difficult to lift or move
- a heavy weight/load
- She was struggling with a heavy suitcase.
- My brother is much heavier than me.
📒 more or worse than usual in amount, degree, etc.
- the noise of heavy traffic
- heavy rain/rainfall/snow
- the effects of heavy drinking
📒 doing the thing mentioned more, or more deeply, than usual
- a heavy drinker/smoker
- a heavy sleeper
📒 large and solid
- big, dark rooms full of heavy furniture
- He was tall and strong, with heavy features.
📒 thick
- heavy curtains
- a heavy coat
📒 full of or loaded with something
- trees heavy with apples
- The air was heavy with the scent of flowers.
- His voice was heavy with sarcasm.
📒 large and powerful
- a wide range of engines and heavy machinery/equipment
- heavy lorries/trucks
📒 involving a lot of work or activity; very busy
- a heavy schedule
- She'd had a heavy day.
📒 hard, especially because it requires a lot of physical strength
- heavy lifting
- A gardener comes in to do the heavy work for me.
📒 falling or hitting something with a lot of force
📒 large in amount or very solid
- a heavy lunch/dinner/meal
- Avoid heavy foods that are difficult to digest.
📒 carrying heavy weapons
- the heavy infantry/cavalry
📒 loud and deep
- heavy breathing
- a heavy groan/sigh
📒 using a lot of something
- Older cars are heavy on gas.
- Don't go so heavy on the garlic.
📒 serious; difficult to understand or enjoy
- We found the play very heavy.
- The discussion got a little heavy.
📒 dangerous because of big waves, etc.
- strong winds and heavy seas
- The heavy Atlantic swells pounded the beach.
📒 hot and without enough fresh air, in a way that feels unpleasant
- It's very heavy—I think there'll be a storm.
📒 wet, sticky and difficult to dig or to move over
📒 very strict and severe
- Don't be so heavy on her—it wasn't her fault.
📒 to become very serious, because strong feelings are involved
- They started shouting at me. It got very heavy.
- Then he got heavy and tried to kiss me.
- Things were starting to get a bit heavy so I decided to leave.
📒 to have a difficult problem that makes you worried or unhappy but that you have to deal with
- We all have our crosses to bear.
📒 used to describe somebody/something that is difficult to deal with or understand
- She's a bit heavy going.
- I found the course rather heavy going.
📒 a way of doing something or of treating people that is much stronger and less sensitive than it needs to be
- the heavy hand of management
📒 a very sad feeling
- She left her children behind with a heavy heart.
📒 a group of strong, often violent people employed to do something such as protect somebody
📒 a situation when people do not say anything, but feel embarrassed or uncomfortable
📒 to seem to find something more difficult or complicated than it needs to be
- People in this country make such heavy weather of learning languages.
📒 to have a bad effect on somebody/something; to cause a lot of damage, deaths, pain, etc.
- Illness had taken a heavy toll on her.
- The recession is taking its toll on the housing markets.
- The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.