heavy

adj

1. hefty, weighty, bulky, substantial, dense, ample; big, large, huge, gigantic, titanic, enormous, massive, ponderous, prodigious, mammoth, mighty, colossal, immense; unwieldy, cumbrous, cumbersome, awkward, unmanageable.

2. turbulent, tempestuous, stormy, squally; raging, howling, roaring, wailing, thundering; violent, savage, wild, rough.

3. fat, overweight, obese; stout, portly, corpulent, Scot. fodgel; chubby, tubby, pudgy, plump; paunchy, pot-bellied, big-bellied, great-bellied, Sl. beer-bellied, Obs. gorbellied.

4. grave, serious, crucial, critical, climacteric, acute; important, all-important, essential, of the essence, vital, heartbeat, Inf. gut.

5. deep, profound, esoteric, recondite, abstruse, Sl. heavy-duty; impenetrable, incomprehensible, past or beyond comprehension, unfathomable.

6. intense, extreme, keen, sharp, poignant; piercing, penetrating, cutting, biting, stinging; indelible, deeplyfelt, heartfelt, Archaic. homefelt; overpowering, overwhelming, overcoming, overmastering.

7. burdensome, onerous, oppressive, hard, harsh, severe; distressing, grievous, baneful, baleful; intolerable, unbearable, backbreaking.

8. trying, difficult, troublesome, bothersome, worrisome; irksome, vexatious, wearisome, tiresome.

9. broad, blunt, thick, coarse.

10. weighted, weighed-down, laden, heavy-laden, loaded, loaded-down, taxed; encumbered, cumbered, burdened; strained, overloaded, overburdened, overtasked, overtaxed.

11. fraught, charged; momentous, decisive, pivotal.

12. depressed, dejected, downhearted, gloomy, morose, melancholy, downcast, sad, mournful; disconsolate, inconsolable, grief-stricken, cheerless, joyless, heartsick, heavy-hearted; crestfallen, chapfallen, long-faced, Inf. down in the mouth.

13. dull, boring, uninteresting, tedious, dry, dry-as-dust, Sl. dead; tasteless, bland, insipid, jejune, flat, vapid, Sl. for the birds, Sl. blah, Sl. nothing; uneventful, humdrum, monotonous, run-of-the-mill, prosaic.

14. cloudy, overcast, gray; lowering, leaden, dark, darkened; dreary, dismal, bleak, Scot, and North Eng. dowie, Literary. drear.

15. clumsy, lumbering, clodhopping; stolid, bovine, lumpish; sluggish, phlegmatic, lethargic, torpid, lifeless, spiritless.

16. sober, somber, staid, sedate, solemn; grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, stone-faced, frowning, unsmiling.

n

17.Theater. villain, antagonist, Inf. bad guy, Sl. baddie.