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heavy

Definition for heavy

adjective as in depressed; gloomy weather

adjective as in listless, slow

Strongest match

sluggish

Strong matches

apathetic, lethargic, torpid

noun as in role of the villain

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Example Sentences

The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

“There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.

The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.

“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.

The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.

Heavy firing continued all that afternoon, inflicting great loss on the rebels, whilst the Spaniards lost one soldier.

The keen resentment had faded from his face, but an immense reproach was there—a heavy, helpless, appealing reproach.

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On this page you'll find 369 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heavy, such as: awkward, big, bulky, burdensome, considerable, and cumbersome.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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