Usually means: Having significant weight; difficult to lift.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. heavy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. heavy: Collins English Dictionary
  3. heavy: Vocabulary.com
  4. Heavy, heavy: Wordnik
  5. heavy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. heavy: Wiktionary
  7. heavy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. heavy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. heavy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. heavy: Dictionary.com
  11. heavy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. heavy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  14. Heavy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. heavy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. heavy: Rhymezone
  17. heavy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. heavy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. heavy: Free Dictionary
  20. heavy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. heavy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. heavy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. heavy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. heavy: Merriam-Webster.com
  25. heavy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Heavy: bizterms.net
  2. Heavy: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Heavy: Investopedia
  4. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  5. Heavy (job): Legal dictionary
  6. Heavy: Financial dictionary
  7. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  8. heavy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heavy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. heavy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. heavy: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. heavy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Heavy: 1960's Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  2. Heavy: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a physical object) Having great weight.
adjective:  (of a topic) Serious, somber.
adjective:  Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
adjective:  (British, slang, dated) Good.
adjective:  (dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.
adjective:  (of a rate of flow) High, great.
adjective:  (slang) Armed.
adjective:  (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
adjective:  (of weather) Hot and humid.
adjective:  (of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
adjective:  (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
adjective:  (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
adjective:  Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
adjective:  Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
adjective:  Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
adjective:  Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
adjective:  Not raised or leavened.
adjective:  (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
adjective:  (obsolete) With child; pregnant.
adjective:  (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
adjective:  (petroleum) Having high viscosity.
adjective:  (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
adjective:  (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
adjective:  (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
adjective:  Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
adverb:  In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
adverb:  (colloquial, nonstandard) To a great degree; greatly.
adverb:  (India, colloquial) very
noun:  (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
noun:  (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
noun:  (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
noun:  (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
noun:  (theater, archaic, slang) A serious theatrical role.
noun:  (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
verb:  (often with "up") To make heavier.
verb:  To sadden.
verb:  (Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
adjective:  Having the heaves.

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