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Results for: "heavy"

Translating from English to Corsican

Translations:

heavy — having great weight
→ pisante

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (2)

1. an actor who plays villainous roles;

2. a serious (or tragic) role in a play;


ADJECTIVE (27)

1. of comparatively great physical weight or density;
- Example: "a heavy load"
- Example: "lead is a heavy metal"
- Example: "heavy mahogany furniture"

2. unusually great in degree or quantity or number;
- Example: "heavy taxes"
- Example: "a heavy fine"
- Example: "heavy casualties"
- Example: "heavy losses"
- Example: "heavy rain"
- Example: "heavy traffic"

3. of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment;
- Example: "heavy artillery"
- Example: "heavy infantry"
- Example: "a heavy cruiser"
- Example: "heavy guns"
- Example: "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries"

4. marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness;
- Example: "a heavy heart"
- Example: "a heavy schedule"
- Example: "heavy news"
- Example: "a heavy silence"
- Example: "heavy eyelids"

5. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it;
[syn: fleshy, heavy, overweight]

6. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained;
- Example: "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
[syn: clayey, cloggy, heavy]

7. darkened by clouds;
- Example: "a heavy sky"
[syn: heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening]

8. of great intensity or power or force;
- Example: "a heavy blow"
- Example: "the fighting was heavy"
- Example: "heavy seas"

9. (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight;
- Example: "heavy hydrogen"
- Example: "heavy water"

10. (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain;
- Example: "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'"

11. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter;
- Example: "dense smoke"
- Example: "heavy fog"
- Example: "impenetrable gloom"
[syn: dense, heavy, impenetrable]

12. of relatively large extent and density;
- Example: "a heavy line"

13. made of fabric having considerable thickness;
- Example: "a heavy coat"

14. prodigious;
- Example: "big spender"
- Example: "big eater"
- Example: "heavy investor"
[syn: big(a), heavy(a)]

15. full and loud and deep;
- Example: "heavy sounds"
- Example: "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
[syn: heavy, sonorous]

16. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors;
- Example: "a hard drinker"
[syn: intemperate, hard, heavy]

17. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;
- Example: "grave responsibilities"
- Example: "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"
- Example: "a grievous fault"
- Example: "heavy matters of state"
- Example: "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
[syn: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty]

18. slow and laborious because of weight;
- Example: "the heavy tread of tired troops"
- Example: "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"
- Example: "ponderous prehistoric beasts"
- Example: "a ponderous yawn"
[syn: heavy, lumbering, ponderous]

19. large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work;
- Example: "a heavy truck"
- Example: "heavy machinery"

20. dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal;
- Example: "a heavy pudding"

21. sharply inclined;
- Example: "a heavy grade"

22. full of; bearing great weight;
- Example: "trees heavy with fruit"
- Example: "vines weighed down with grapes"
[syn: heavy, weighed down]

23. requiring or showing effort;
- Example: "heavy breathing"
- Example: "the subject made for labored reading"
[syn: heavy, labored, laboured]

24. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;
- Example: "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
- Example: "a grueling campaign"
- Example: "hard labor"
- Example: "heavy work"
- Example: "heavy going"
- Example: "spent many laborious hours on the project"
- Example: "set a punishing pace"
[syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]

25. lacking lightness or liveliness;
- Example: "heavy humor"
- Example: "a leaden conversation"
[syn: heavy, leaden]

26. (of sleep) deep and complete;
- Example: "a heavy sleep"
- Example: "fell into a profound sleep"
- Example: "a sound sleeper"
- Example: "deep wakeless sleep"
[syn: heavy, profound, sound, wakeless]

27. in an advanced stage of pregnancy;
- Example: "was big with child"
- Example: "was great with child"
[syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)]


ADVERB (1)

1. slowly as if burdened by much weight;
- Example: "time hung heavy on their hands"
[syn: heavy, heavily]