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heavy
adjective as in having great weight
Strongest matches
awkward, big, bulky, burdensome, considerable, cumbersome, excessive, fat, hefty, huge, large, massive, substantial, unwieldy, weighty
Strong matches
adjective as in difficult, severe
Strongest matches
arduous, burdensome, complicated, hard, harsh, onerous, rough, serious, tedious, tough, violent, weighty
Weak matches
abstruse, acroamatic, boisterous, confused, effortful, esoteric, formidable, grievous, intolerable, knotty, labored, laborious, oppressive, profound, recondite, solemn, stormy, strenuous, tempestuous, toilsome, troublesome, turbulent, vexatious, wearisome
adjective as in depressed; gloomy weather
Weak matches
cloudy, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dull, grieving, leaden, oppressive, sad, sodden, soggy, sorrowful
adjective as in listless, slow
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Example Sentences
Locals say career opportunities are largely nonexistent outside of mining and some heavy manufacturing companies that support the coal and timber industries.
Companies across multiple industries are using patent litigation to impose heavy legal expenses on competitors.
Meanwhile, the 820-foot Virat began spewing heavy smoke from its engine room after being hit at a point farther east along the coast.
But we pay a heavy price for comfort: Lycra, which is in almost everything we wear now, lives forever in landfills.
He thinks a heavy focus on buybacks signals that a company “simply doesn’t have great, high-return ideas for how to spend that money.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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