heavily
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Synonyms & Antonyms for heavily
Synonyms
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
Antonyms
little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
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The interactions can help build positive connections with new people — or pets — who are happy to see you, without leaning too heavily on a friend group, Bahar says. — Colleen Stinchcombe, Woman's Day, "How to Deal With Loneliness and Feelings of Isolation," 11 Jan. 2019 The Arctic is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, and will be one of the most heavily impacted. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Almost All of the Arctic's Oldest Ice Is Already Gone," 11 Dec. 2018 Because the furniture doesn't command the space, Hollywood Regency leans heavily on the decor accents to bring the glam. — Sienna Fantozzi, House Beautiful, "Everything You Need To Know About Hollywood Regency Design," 30 Nov. 2018 And state and local governments have already spent heavily on building the infrastructure Foxconn requires. — Bruce Murphy, The Verge, "Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn boondoggle," 29 Oct. 2018 Kingwood and surrounding Lake Houston area communities were heavily impacted by flooding brought on by Hurricane Harvey. — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, "Dam gates, dredging are major topics at county flood bond meeting in Kingwood," 12 July 2018 The Women’s March organization has also faced backlash for focusing too heavily on the concerns of white women, as well as excluding women who hold more conservative viewpoints. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, "The Best Signs From the 2019 Women’s March," 19 Jan. 2019 The Reuters article, by Lisa Girion, focuses heavily on reports and testing that J&J did in the 1970s on both its baby powder and its Shower to Shower product that was marketed to adults. — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, "Johnson & Johnson accused of hiding the asbestos in its baby powder for decades," 14 Dec. 2018 In the last eighteen months Facebook, with the full support of this board, has invested heavily in more people and better technology to prevent misuse of its services, including during elections. — Kurt Wagner, Recode, "Facebook’s board is throwing public support behind Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg — who are on Facebook’s board," 15 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'heavily.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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