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heaviness

/hev-ee/US // ˈhɛv i //UK // (ˈhɛvɪ) //

沉重,沉重感,厚重感,沉重的感觉

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    heav·i·er, heav·i·est.

    • : of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
    • : of great amount, quantity, or size; extremely large; massive: a heavy vote; a heavy snowfall.
    • : of great force, intensity, turbulence, etc.: a heavy sea.
    • : of more than the usual or average weight: a heavy person; heavy freight.
    • : having much weight in proportion to bulk; being of high specific gravity: a heavy metal.
    • : of major import; grave; serious: a heavy offense.
    • : deep or intense; profound: a heavy thinker; heavy slumber.
    • : Military. thickly armed or equipped with guns of large size.Compare heavy cruiser. of the more powerful sizes: heavy weapons.Compare heavy artillery.
    • : hard to bear; burdensome; harsh; oppressive: heavy taxes.
    • : hard to cope with; trying; difficult: a heavy task.
    • : being as indicated to an unusually great degree: a heavy buyer.
    • : broad, thick, or coarse; not delicate: heavy lines drawn in charcoal.
    • : weighted or laden: air heavy with moisture.
    • : fraught; loaded; charged: words heavy with meaning.
    • : depressed with trouble or sorrow; showing sorrow; sad: a heavy heart.
    • : without vivacity or interest; ponderous; dull: a heavy style.
    • : slow in movement or action; clumsy: a heavy walk.
    • : loud and deep; sonorous: a heavy sound.
    • : overcast or cloudy.
    • : exceptionally dense in substance; insufficiently raised or leavened; thick: heavy doughnuts.
    • : not easily digested.
    • : being in a state of advanced pregnancy; nearing childbirth: heavy with child;heavy with young.
    • : having a large capacity, capable of doing rough work, or having a large output: a heavy truck.
    • : producing or refining basic materials, as steel or coal, used in manufacturing: heavy industry.
    • : sober, serious, or somber: a heavy part in a drama.
    • : Chemistry. of or relating to an isotope of greater than normal atomic weight, as heavy hydrogen or heavy oxygen, or to a compound containing such an element, as heavy water.
    • : Slang. very good; excellent.very serious or important: a really heavy relationship.
    • : Phonetics. stressed. long.
n.名词 noun
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    plural heav·ies.

    • : a somber or ennobled theatrical role or character: Iago is the heavy in Othello.
    • : the theatrical role of a villain.
    • : an actor who plays a theatrical heavy.
    • : Military. a gun of great weight or large caliber.
    • : Slang. a very important or influential person: a reception for government heavies.
adv.副词 adverb
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    • : heavily.

Phrases

  • heavy going
  • heavy hand, with a
  • heavy heart, with a
  • heavy hitter
  • hot and heavy
  • make heavy weather of
  • play the heavy
  • time hangs heavy

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Sheppard said before the draft that Wall won’t be playing heavy minutes anymore after averaging just under 36 minutes per game since coming into the league as the No.

  • A long-haul aircraft like this is much heavier when it takes off than when it lands—that’s the reason a pilot may decide to dump fuel if they need to return to the airport they took off from right away in an emergency.

  • That includes heavy metals, radioactive materials, coliforms and phosphates.

  • If you lift heavy weights, you develop bigger muscles and get better at lifting heavy weights.

  • As in his Cavaliers stint, Lue takes over the Clippers with the franchise facing its heaviest championship expectations to date.

  • So the heaviness was not so much a literary conceit but something I wanted to talk about.

  • Something heavy and sad came over Abu Hassar and the heaviness of that thing came over me.

  • He saw himself as a deep-inside player in the intelligence world, and the heaviness of the responsibility was not sitting well.

  • And later, we want to see people in various stages of working it off, or at the very least, grappling with heaviness.

  • A heaviness as of unguessed tragedy lay upon all three, not only upon Tom.

  • It was also (p. 255) supposed valuable in cases of heaviness and obtuseness of intellect.

  • The varnish has a thicker and less dainty aspect, although of excellent quality still, but there is an impression of heaviness.

  • Do not gastronomists complain of heaviness in London after eating a couple of mutton-chops?

  • In spite of the sunshine and balm of the bright weather, a sense of heaviness and foreboding oppressed her.