heaviness

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heav·y

(hĕv′ē)

adj. heav·i·er, heav·i·est

1. Having relatively great weight: a heavy load.

2. Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.

a. Large, as in number or quantity: a heavy turnout; heavy casualties.

b. Large in yield or output: heavy rainfall.

4. Of great intensity: heavy activity; heavy fighting.

a. Having great power or force: a heavy punch.

b. Violent; rough: heavy seas.

a. Equipped with massive armaments and weapons: a heavy cruiser; heavy infantry.

b. Large enough to fire powerful shells: heavy guns.

a. Indulging to a great degree: a heavy drinker.

b. Involved or participating on a large scale: a heavy investor.

8. Of great import or seriousness; grave: heavy matters of state.

a. Having considerable thickness: a heavy coat.

b. Broad or coarse: drew the face with heavy lines.

10.

a. Dense; thick: a heavy fog.

b. Slow to dissipate; strong: "There was a heavy fragrance of flowers and lemon trees" (Mario Puzo).

c. Too dense or rich to digest easily: a heavy dessert.

d. Insufficiently leavened: heavy bread.

e. Full of clay and readily saturated: heavy soil.

11.

a. Weighed down; burdened: trees heavy with plums.

b. Emotionally weighed down; despondent: a heavy heart.

c. Marked by or exhibiting weariness: heavy lids.

d. Sad or painful: heavy news.

12.

a. Hard to do or accomplish; arduous: heavy going; heavy reading.

b. Not easily borne; oppressive: heavy taxes.

13. Lacking vitality; deficient in vivacity or grace: a heavy gait; heavy humor.

14. Sharply inclined; steep: a heavy grade.

15. Having a large capacity or designed for rough work: a heavy truck.

16. Of, relating to, or involving the large-scale production of basic products, such as steel: heavy industry.

17. Of or relating to a serious dramatic role.

18. Physics Of or relating to an isotope with an atomic mass greater than the average mass of that element.

19. Loud; sonorous: a heavy sound; heavy breathing.

20. Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a syllable ending in a long vowel or in a vowel plus two consonants.

21. Slang

a. Of great significance or profundity.

b. Very popular or important: a rock star who is really heavy.

adv. heav·i·er, heav·i·est

Heavily: The snow is falling heavier tonight than last night.

n. pl. heav·ies

a. A serious or tragic role in a play.

b. An actor playing such a role.

2. Slang A villain in a story or play.

3. Slang A mobster.

4. Slang One that is very important or influential: a media heavy.

[Middle English hevi, from Old English hefig; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

heav′i·ness n.

Synonyms: heavy, weighty, hefty, massive, ponderous
These adjectives mean having a relatively great weight. Heavy refers to what has great physical weight (a heavy boulder) and figuratively to what is burdensome or oppressive to the spirit (heavy responsibilities). Weighty literally denotes having considerable weight (a weighty package); figuratively, it describes what is onerous, serious, or important (a weighty decision). Hefty refers principally to physical heaviness or brawniness: a hefty book; a short, hefty wrestler. Massive describes what is bulky, heavy, solid, and strong: massive marble columns. Ponderous refers to what has great mass and weight and usually implies unwieldiness: ponderous prehistoric beasts. Figuratively it describes what is complicated, involved, or lacking in grace: a book with a ponderous plot.

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Heaviness

Feel heavy … like a corpse —Penelope Gilliatt
Feel heavy like the September limbs of an apple tree —Diane Wakoski
The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead —Oscar Wilde
Heavy and indistinct, like the consciousness of a man in a dream —Gustave Flaubert
See Also: VAGUENESS
Heavy as a lecher’s kiss —Sylvia Plath
(A cold sky) heavy as a vault —Malcolm Cowley
(They are) heavy as dumplings —Henry David Thoreau
To give added emphasis and specificity, there’s “Heavy as overcooked dumplings,” “Heavy as matzoh balls,” “Heavy as latkes,” “Heavy as wontons.”
Heavy as guilt —Anon
Heavy as hard luck —Philip Larkin
Heavy as ingots —Diane Ackerman
(The glass mugs were) heavy as sin —Harvey Swados
[A suitcase] heavy as some icon —Cynthia Ozick
Heavy as the weight of dreams —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Leaden like a bullet —Ted Hughes

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Noun	1.	heaviness - the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead" weightiness weight - the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity heft, ponderosity, ponderousness, heftiness, massiveness - the property of being large in mass preponderance - exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale" weightlessness, lightness - the property of being comparatively small in weight; "the lightness of balsa wood"
	2.	heaviness - persisting sadness; "nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss" sadness, unhappiness - emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
	3.	heaviness - an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition" ponderousness uninterestingness - inability to capture or hold one's interest
	4.	heaviness - used of a line or mark thickness broadness, wideness - the property of being wide; having great width
	5.	heaviness - unwelcome burdensome difficulty burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"

heaviness

noun

1. weight, gravity, ponderousness, heftiness the heaviness of earthbound matter

2. sluggishness, torpor, numbness, dullness, lassitude, languor, deadness There was a heaviness in the air that stunned them.

3. sadness, depression, gloom, seriousness, melancholy, despondency, dejection, gloominess, glumness a heaviness in his reply which discouraged further questioning

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

heaviness

noun

The state or quality of being physically heavy:

heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness, weight, weightiness.

Informal: avoirdupois.

Translations

ثِقَل

tíha

tyngdevoldsomhed

Schwere

appesantissement lourdeur

òyngsli

pesantezza

tretthet tyngde

teža

ağırlık güçlük şiddet

沉重重量

heaviness

[ˈhevɪnɪs] N [of object] → lo pesado, peso m; [of subject matter] → lo denso
always test the heaviness of a load → comprueba siempre lo pesada que es una carga or el peso de una carga
I felt a heaviness in my legs → sentía pesadez en las piernas
heaviness of heart → pesadumbre f (liter)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

heaviness

[ˈhɛvinɪs] n

(= weight) → poids m

(= extent, amount) [loss] → importance f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

heaviness

(of person, object, load) → Schwere f; (of features) → Grobheit f; heaviness of heart → schweres Herz; heaviness of spirit → gedrückte Stimmung, Niedergeschlagenheit f

(of tread, blow, gunfire, casualties etc) → Schwere f; (of traffic) → Stärke f; (of defeat, losses, taxes) → Höhe f; (of buying) → Umfang m; (of line) → Dicke f; (of sleep) → Tiefe f

(= heavy-handedness: of manner, style) → Schwerfälligkeit f

(= oppressiveness, of air) → Schwüle f; (of sky) → Bedecktheit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

heaviness

[ˈhɛvɪnɪs] n (weight) → pesantezza; (of expense, taxation) → gravosità, onerosità; (of traffic) → intensità

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

heavy

(ˈhevi) adjective

1. having great weight; difficult to lift or carry. a heavy parcel.

2. having a particular weight. I wonder how heavy our little baby is.

3. of very great amount, force etc. heavy rain; a heavy blow; The ship capsized in the heavy seas; heavy taxes.

4. doing something to a great extent. He's a heavy smoker/drinker.

5. dark and dull; looking or feeling stormy. a heavy sky/atmosphere.

6. difficult to read, do, understand etc. Books on philosophy are too heavy for me.

7. (of food) hard to digest. rather heavy pastry.

8. noisy and clumsy. heavy footsteps.

ˈheavily adverb

ˈheaviness noun

ˌheavy-ˈduty adjective

made to stand up to very hard wear or use. heavy-duty tyres.

heavy industry

industries such as coalmining, ship-building etc which involve the use of large or heavy machines or which produce large or heavy products.

ˈheavyweight adjective, noun

(a person) in the heaviest of the various classes into which competitors in certain sports (eg boxing, wrestling) are divided according to their weight. a heavyweight boxer.

heavy going

difficult to make any progress with. I found this book very heavy going.

a heavy heart

a feeling of sadness. He obeyed with a heavy heart.

make heavy weather of

to find surprising difficulty in doing. He said he'd finish the job in half an hour, but he's making rather heavy weather of it.

heaviness

n. pesadez, pesantez, peso; [sleep] sueño pesado, modorra; [feelings] abatimiento, decaimiento.

heaviness

n pesadez f

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The terrible spectacle of the battlefield covered with dead and wounded, together with the heaviness of his head and the news that some twenty generals he knew personally had been killed or wounded, and the consciousness of the impotence of his once mighty arm, produced an unexpected impression on Napoleon who usually liked to look at the killed and wounded, thereby, he considered, testing his strength of mind.

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I no longer feel in common with you; the very cloud which I see beneath me, the blackness and heaviness at which I laugh--that is your thunder-cloud.

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"Alas," said he to himself in the heaviness of his heart, "why are the Achaeans again scouring the plain and flocking towards the ships?

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The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.

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So, week by week, poor Peter came And turned in heaviness away; For still the answer was the same,

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As a result I awoke with mouth parched and dry, with a slight heaviness of head, and with a mild nervous palpitation in the stomach.

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Sometimes after a heavy night he had such a headache that he could not drink his coffee, and he gave his lesson with heaviness of spirit.

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Indeed, half his natural flow of animal spirits, joined to the sweetness of his temper, was sufficient to make a most amiable companion; and notwithstanding the heaviness of his heart, so agreeable did he make himself on the present occasion, that, at their breaking up, the young gentleman earnestly desired his further acquaintance.

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The heaviness in his head and the weariness in his limbs that he had felt a minute before had suddenly gone.

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There was a sense of closeness from the exclusion of fresh air, and a gloom and heaviness around, as though long imprisonment had made the very silence sad.

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heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

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Still, many in the regiment hung their heads in criminal fashion, so that it came to pass that the men trudged with sudden heaviness, as if they bore upon their bended shoulders the coffin of their honor.