heavy

IPA: hˈɛvi

(often with "up") To make heavier.
To sadden.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

(of a physical object) Having great weight.
(of a topic) Serious, somber.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
(Britain, slang, dated) Good.
(dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.
(of a rate of flow) High, great.
(slang) Armed.
(of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
(of weather) Hot and humid.
(of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
(of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
(of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
Not raised or leavened.
(of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
(obsolete) With child; pregnant.
(physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
(petroleum) Having high viscosity.
(finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
(nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
(aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
Having the heaves.

Examples of "heavy" in Sentences

She's heavy artillery; and I mean _heavy_, believe me! "
The sentence = _Gold is heavy beyond the degree in which iron is heavy_.
He represents the pinnacle of hard rock before the term heavy metal existed
He represents the pinnacle of hard rock before the term heavy metal existed.
“The term heavy metal has become such a wide label,” Ratt bassist Juan Croucier said as early as 1985.
A rebel fighter told al Jazeera TV that his men surrounded the border post during the night and captured it after what he described as heavy fighting.
_duple_; the alternation of heavy and light pulses is regular; and therefore the third beat is again an accent, as well as the first, though _less heavy_.
It's a curious irony that the term "heavy- weight" has been applied to Chris Patten's appointment as the new chair of the BBC Trust Patten to be named BBC Trust chair, 19 February, as it would seem the other possible candidates lacked such an accolade.