Other Words for Heavy

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Heavy as a Adjective has these synonyms:

abundant, overflowing, excessive, copious, profuse, prodigious, ample, unmanageable
Example: We just crawled along in the heavy traffic.

burdened, laden, encumbered, loaded, overloaded, weighed down
Example: We spied two Indiamen, heavy with cargoes of spices, sailing towards us.

burdensome, onerous, oppressive, weighty, unbearable, severe, grievous, distressful, sore, intolerable, insupportable or unsupportable, awful
Example: Teenagers often feel that they are weighed down with heavy responsibilities.

gloomy, cloudy, overcast, bleak, dismal, dreary, leaden, grey, dark, louring or lowering, threatening
Example: It was another of Scotland's heavy February days.

intense, concentrated, severe, forceful, violent, torrential
Example: The snowfall was the heaviest of the year.

overweight, fat, obese, stout, chubby, plump, corpulent, portly, paunchy, tubby, podgy or pudgy, beer-bellied
Example: The doctor did not say I was too heavy, only that I ought to be six inches taller.

ponderous, tedious, monotonous, boring, uninteresting, leaden, dull, prosaic, dry, dry-as-dust, stodgy, staid, stuffy, stifling, stultifying
Example: The critics found the style much too heavy for the subject being treated.

sad, sorrowful, distressing, grievous, upsetting, depressing, gloomy, sombre, melancholy
Example: Some heavy news has been received from the front.

serious, grave, important, crucial, critical, acute
Example: You always bring up heavy topics at the end of the meeting.

thick, coarse, broad, blunt, clumsy, ungraceful
Example: These heavy brush-strokes prove that the painting is not a Turner.

unhappy, miserable, depressed, melancholy, grieving, sad, dejected, downhearted, disconsolate, downcast, despondent, gloomy, heavy-hearted, morose, crestfallen, cheerless
Example: Heavy at heart, he returned to his cheerless home.

weighty, difficult, complex, recondite, arcane, deep, profound, esoteric, incomprehensible, impenetrable, unfathomable
Example: He specializes in some heavy subject like micro-palaeontology.

weighty, ponderous, massive, massy, compact, dense
Example: This box is much too heavy for me to lift.

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