heavy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   requiring or showing effort

   heavy breathing

2. 2
   adj

   sharply inclined

   a heavy grade

3. 3
   adj

   dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal

   a heavy pudding

4. 4
   adj

   of comparatively great physical weight or density

   a heavy load

5. 5
   adj

   large and powerful

   especially designed for heavy loads or rough work

6. 6
   adj

   unusually great in degree or quantity or number

   heavy taxes

7. 7
   adj

   (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight

   heavy hydrogen

8. 8
   adj

   of great intensity or power or force

   a heavy blow

Etymology

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Related to have. Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (c…