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(adj) big, with child, large, gravid, great, enceinte, expectant
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
was big with child; was great with child
(adj) lowering, sullen, threatening
darkened by clouds
a heavy sky
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained
the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
(adj) profound, wakeless, sound
(of sleep) deep and complete
a heavy sleep; fell into a profound sleep; a sound sleeper; deep wakeless sleep
(adj) leaden
lacking lightness or liveliness
heavy humor; a leaden conversation
(adj) grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, backbreaking, arduous, toilsome, operose, punishing
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
worked their arduous way up the mining valley; a grueling campaign; hard labor; heavy work; heavy going; spent many laborious hours on the project; set a punishing pace
requiring or showing effort
heavy breathing; the subject made for labored reading
(adj) fleshy, overweight
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
(adj) weighed down
full of; bearing great weight
trees heavy with fruit; vines weighed down with grapes
slow and laborious because of weight
the heavy tread of tired troops; moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot; ponderous prehistoric beasts; a ponderous yawn
(adj) grave, grievous, weighty
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
grave responsibilities; faced a grave decision in a time of crisis; a grievous fault; heavy matters of state; the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
(adj) intemperate, hard
given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
a hard drinker
(adj) sonorous
full and loud and deep
heavy sounds; a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
(adj) big
prodigious
big spender; big eater; heavy investor
(adj) dense, impenetrable
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
dense smoke; heavy fog; impenetrable gloom
(adv) heavily
slowly as if burdened by much weight
time hung heavy on their hands