What is the meaning of heavy?

noun

• An actor who plays villainous roles.
• A serious (or tragic) role in a play.

adjective

• Of comparatively great physical weight or density.
  • usage: "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture"
• Unusually great in degree or quantity or number.
  • usage: "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"
• Of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment.
  • usage: "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries"
• Marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness.
  • usage: "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"
• Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it.
  • synonyms: fleshy, overweight
• Used of soil. ( compact and fine-grained)
  • usage: "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
  • synonyms: clayey, cloggy
• Darkened by clouds.
  • usage: "a heavy sky"
  • synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening
• Of great intensity or power or force.
  • usage: "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"
• Physics, chemistry. ( being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight)
  • usage: "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water"
• Of an actor or role. ( being or playing the villain)
  • usage: "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"
• Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter.
  • usage: "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
  • synonyms: dense, impenetrable
• Of relatively large extent and density.
  • usage: "a heavy line"
• Made of fabric having considerable thickness.
  • usage: "a heavy coat"
• Prodigious.
  • usage: "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
  • synonyms: big
• Full and loud and deep.
  • usage: "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
  • synonyms: sonorous
• Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors.
  • usage: "a hard drinker"
  • synonyms: intemperate, hard
• Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought.
  • usage: "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
  • synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty
• Slow and laborious because of weight.
  • usage: "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
  • synonyms: lumbering, ponderous
• Large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work.
  • usage: "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery"
• Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal.
  • usage: "a heavy pudding"
• Sharply inclined.
  • usage: "a heavy grade"
• Full of; bearing great weight.
  • usage: "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"
  • synonyms: weighed down
• Requiring or showing effort.
  • usage: "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
  • synonyms: labored, laboured
• Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.
  • usage: "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
  • synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
• Lacking lightness or liveliness.
  • usage: "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"
  • synonyms: leaden
• Of sleep. ( deep and complete)
  • usage: "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
  • synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless
• In an advanced stage of pregnancy.
  • usage: "was big with child"; "was great with child"
  • synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child

adverb

• Slowly as if burdened by much weight.
  • usage: "time hung heavy on their hands"
  • synonyms: heavily