Meaning

27 senses
  1. Having great weight.

    Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.

    Use the scales to measure how heavy it is.

    schwer

    тяжёлыйtjažólyj, тя́жкийtjážkij

    важки́йvažkýj

    full of; bearing great weight

  2. Having great weight.

    Heavyset: overweight.

    When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit.

  3. Serious, somber.

    ernst, dunkel, finster

  4. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.

    heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

  5. (UK, dated, slang)Good.

    This film is heavy.

    stark

  6. (US, dated)Profound.

    The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.

  7. High, great.

    1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs

    schwer, mächtig

    of great intensity or power or force

  8. (slang)Armed.

    Come heavy, or not at all.

  9. Loud, distorted, or intense.

    Metal is heavier than rock.

    full and loud and deep

  10. Hot and humid.

    drückend, schwül

  11. Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.

    This car is too heavy on gas.

    He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.

    groß, schwer

  12. With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.

Examples

1488 sentences
  1. This is as heavy as lead.

    Воно важке як камінюка.

    ruОно тяжёлое, как свинец.

    deDas ist so schwer wie Blei.

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  2. You're twice as heavy as me.

    Ти вдвічі від мене важчий.

    ruТы в два раза тяжелее меня.

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  3. Tom isn't as heavy as Mary.

    Том не такий важкий, як Мері.

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  4. I'm not as heavy as Tom.

    Я не такий важкий як Том.

    ruЯ не такой тяжёлый, как Том.

    deIch bin nicht so schwer wie Tom.

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  5. The box is too heavy to carry.

    Коробка занадто важка щоб її перенести.

    deDiese Kiste ist zu schwer, um sie zu tragen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
having great weight:
Русский
By meaning 1
having great weight:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
having great weight:
serious:
slang: good:
of rate of flow: high:
of weather:hot and humid:
of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people:

Origin

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important,

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Equivalent to heave + -y. Related to have.

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Forms

heavier/more heavy, heaviest/most heavy
Comparativeheavier / more heavy Lesson
Superlativeheaviest / most heavy Lesson

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

87 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • as heavy as
  • is too heavy
  • heavy rain
  • of the heavy
  • the heavy rain
  • a heavy drinker
  • a heavy smoker
  • too heavy for
  • the heavy snow
  • much heavier than
  • heavy traffic
  • heavy metal

See also

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