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heavy
Synonyms and Antonyms of heavy
- this trunk full of books is much too heavy for one person to lift
- the study of history doesn't have to be all about dull heavy reading and the memorization of dates
arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying
aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless
blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular
annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating
draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing
demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting
common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid
cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey)
amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous (or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrous
animating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling
amusing, diverting, entertaining
alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating
- avoid heavy desserts like cheesecake and pecan pie
- heavy skies threatening rain
- they paid a heavy price for their mistakes
- heavy rains
- the company is forecasting heavy losses this year
- got into a heavy discussion about death and the afterlife
- until we find our groove, it's going to be heavy sledding on this project
arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill
abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, elusive, hairy, insoluble, intricate, involved, knotty, opaque, problematic (also problematical), recondite, serious, spiny, stubborn, thorny, ticklish, tricky
bruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, trying
annoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatious
cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
- she's not among the handful of heavy critics who can make or break a Broadway show
able, capable, competent, effective, efficient
authoritarian, autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical (also tyrannic)
celebrated, distinguished, dominant, eminent, famed, famous, great, illustrious, noble, notable, noteworthy, notorious, outstanding, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, renowned
dynamic, energetic, forceful, high-powered, robust, vigorous
- the heifer was heavy with young and soon would be birthing
Synonym Discussion of heavy
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- a heavy child for his age
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- a load of weighty boxes
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- ponderous elephants in a circus parade
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- wrestled with the cumbrous furniture
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- early cameras were cumbersome and inconvenient
heavy
Synonyms and Antonyms of heavy
- he played the heavy in film after film until being cast against type as the romantic lead in a comedy
- in the field of secondary education, she definitely ranks as one of the heavies
big, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big leaguer, big shot, big wheel, big-timer, bigfoot, biggie, bigwig, fat cat, heavy hitter, heavyweight, high-muck-a-muck (or high-muckety-muck), honcho, kahuna, kingfish, kingpin, major leaguer, muckety-muck (also muck-a-muck), nabob, nawab, nibs, nob [chiefly British], pooh-bah (also poo-bah), wheel
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