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heavy
adjective as in having great weight
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awkward, big, bulky, burdensome, considerable, cumbersome, excessive, fat, hefty, huge, large, massive, substantial, unwieldy, weighty
Strong matches
adjective as in difficult, severe
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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
Stewart leaned heavy into irony from the start of the show, saying it is now the “all new, government-approved” version, and was introduced as the evening’s “patriotically obedient host.”
Even the best lithium ion batteries are bulky and heavy, with much lower energy density than jet fuel.
“The thoughts grew heavier by the second, and suddenly, everything felt ice cold and crushing. Now I knew there was absolutely no joy left in it for me.”
“As the day wears on … we could definitely start getting those heavier showers and thunderstorms developing,” said Rich Thompson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
An area of low pressure is, perhaps unsurprisingly, going to be responsible for the heavy rain.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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