1
: to a great degree : severely
2
: slowly and laboriously : dully
3
archaic
: with sorrow : grievously
4
: in a heavy manner
Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- 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
Examples of heavily in a Sentence
He relies heavily on his wife for advice.
These artists borrow heavily from Picasso.
Our flowers were heavily damaged by a late spring frost.
She drank and smoked heavily for years.
He sat down heavily on the couch.
He was leaning heavily on the table.
She sighed heavily then said “Okay, I'll do it.”
Recent Examples on the Web
At only 3, Grace — whom Bindi shares with her husband and fellow conservationist, Chandler Powell — is already heavily involved with the Australia Zoo herself.
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Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2024
Apple is heavily dependent on China’s workforce to manufacture its products, and sales in the region have topped $70 billion in recent years.
—Dell Cameron Andrew Couts, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024
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Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2024
Apple is heavily dependent on China’s workforce to manufacture its products, and sales in the region have topped $70 billion in recent years.
—Dell Cameron Andrew Couts, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for heavily
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“Heavily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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