heavy - Meaning in Hindi

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heavy - Meaning in Hindi

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Definitions and Meaning of heavy in English

heavy adjective

1. large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work

   Examples

   • "a heavy truck"
   • "heavy machinery"
2. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

   Synonyms

   dense, impenetrable

   Examples

   • "dense smoke"
   • "heavy fog"
   • "impenetrable gloom"
3. of relatively large extent and density

   Example

   • "a heavy line"
4. made of fabric having considerable thickness

   Example

   • "a heavy coat"
5. prodigious

   Synonyms

   big, big

   Examples

   • "big eater"
   • "big spender"
   • "heavy investor"
6. full and loud and deep

   Synonyms

   sonorous

   Examples

   • "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
   • "heavy sounds"
7. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

   Synonyms

   hard, intemperate

   Example

   • "a hard drinker"
8. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

   Synonyms

   grave, grievous, weighty

   Examples

   • "a grievous fault"
   • "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"
   • "grave responsibilities"
   • "heavy matters of state"
   • "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
9. of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment

   Examples

   • "a heavy cruiser"
   • "heavy artillery"
   • "heavy guns"
   • "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries"
   • "heavy infantry"
10. slow and laborious because of weight

    Synonyms

    lumbering, ponderous

    Examples

    • "a ponderous yawn"
    • "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"
    • "ponderous prehistoric beasts"
    • "the heavy tread of tired troops"
11. of great intensity or power or force

    Examples

    • "a heavy blow"
    • "heavy seas"
    • "the fighting was heavy"
12. (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight

    Examples

    • "heavy hydrogen"
    • "heavy water"
13. unusually great in degree or quantity or number

    Examples

    • "a heavy fine"
    • "heavy casualties"
    • "heavy losses"
    • "heavy rain"
    • "heavy taxes"
    • "heavy traffic"
14. marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness

    Examples

    • "a heavy heart"
    • "a heavy schedule"
    • "a heavy silence"
    • "heavy eyelids"
    • "heavy news"
15. of comparatively great physical weight or density

    Examples

    • "a heavy load"
    • "heavy mahogany furniture"
    • "lead is a heavy metal"
16. dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal

    Example

    • "a heavy pudding"
17. sharply inclined

    Example

    • "a heavy grade"
18. full of; bearing great weight

    Synonyms

    weighed down

    Examples

    • "trees heavy with fruit"
    • "vines weighed down with grapes"
19. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

    Synonyms

    fleshy, overweight

20. requiring or showing effort

    Synonyms

    labored, laboured

    Examples

    • "heavy breathing"
    • "the subject made for labored reading"
21. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

    Synonyms

    arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome

    Examples

    • "a grueling campaign"
    • "hard labor"
    • "heavy going"
    • "heavy work"
    • "set a punishing pace"
    • "spent many laborious hours on the project"
    • "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
22. lacking lightness or liveliness

    Synonyms

    leaden

    Examples

    • "a leaden conversation"
    • "heavy humor"
23. (of sleep) deep and complete

    Synonyms

    profound, sound, sound, sound, wakeless

    Examples

    • "a heavy sleep"
    • "a sound sleeper"
    • "deep wakeless sleep"
    • "fell into a profound sleep"
24. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained

    Synonyms

    clayey, cloggy

    Example

    • "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
25. darkened by clouds

    Synonyms

    lowering, sullen, threatening

    Example

    • "a heavy sky"
26. in an advanced stage of pregnancy

    Synonyms

    big, big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, great, large, with child

    Examples

    • "was big with child"
    • "was great with child"
27. (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain

    Example

    • "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"

heavy abverb

1. slowly as if burdened by much weight

   Synonyms

   heavily

   Example

   • "time hung heavy on their hands"

heavy noun

1. an actor who plays villainous roles
2. a serious (or tragic) role in a play

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