Word Finder - heavier

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(of a physical object) Having great weight.

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(of a topic) Serious, somber.

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Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.

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heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

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Good.

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This film is heavy.

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(late 1960s, 1970s) Profound.

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The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.

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(of a rate of flow) High, great.

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Armed.

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Come heavy, or not at all.

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Louder, more distorted.

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Metal is heavier than swing.

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(of weather) Hot and humid.

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(of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.

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He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.

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(of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.

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Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.

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Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.

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it was a heavy storm;  a heavy slumber in bed;  a heavy punch

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Laden to a great extent.

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his eyes were heavy with sleep;  she was heavy with child

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Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.

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Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.

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a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.

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Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.

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a heavy road; a heavy soil

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Not raised or leavened.

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heavy bread

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(of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.

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With child; pregnant.

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Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one

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(petroleum) with high viscosity

The air around her felt heavier as she sat.

Snow fell heavier, until she could barely see the next tree in front of her.

It felt heavier than usual already.

He was as tall as Josh, but he was built heavier – and not as good looking either.

Heavier chores are left to others.

The Irish wolfhound is now extinct, but appears to have been a powerful race heavier than the deerhound but similar to it in general characters.

The tome was far heavier than she expected, made of something much different than cardboard and paper.

I lifted it up, but the higher I lifted it the bigger and heavier it grew.

The air felt a little heavier around her as he spoke, compelling her attention to him.

That city is taken; the Russian army suffers heavier losses than the opposing armies had suffered in the former war from Austerlitz to Wagram.

He shook out his tension but felt an even heavier sense of guilt.

Her eyelids were heavy, her body even heavier.

The fog around her thoughts grew heavier.

Wynn's warning weighed heavier on her thoughts.

The air grew heavier.

Whilst the heavier troops moved down the Kabul valley to Pencelaotis (Charsadda) under Perdiccas and Hephaestion, Alexander with a body of lighter-armed troops and cavalry pushed up the valleys which join the Kabul from the north - through the regions now known as Bajour, Swat and Buner, inhabited by Indian hill peoples, as fierce then against the western intruder as their Pathan successors are against the British columns.

He had aristocratic privileges and responsibilities, the right to exact retaliation for corporal injuries, and liability to heavier punishment for crimes and misdemeanours, higher fees and fines to pay.

The particular sizes and descriptions of wires used are dependent upon the character of the " circuits " the longer and more important circuits requiring the heavier wire.

In many cases a still heavier type is used for the first mile or two from shore, and several intermediate types are often introduced, tapering gradually to the thin deep-water type.

At offices where the work is heavier than can be dealt with by the A B C apparatus, the " Single Needle " instrument has been very largely employed; it has the advantage of slight Single liability to derangement, and of requiring very little adjustment.

It seems obvious that the lighter and poorer soils would benefit more than the heavier or richer soils by the extended growth of leguminous crops.

The rainfall of the province is considerably heavier than in northern India, and the result of this is a cooler and more pleasant atmosphere during the monsoon season.

The lurcher is a dog with the general shape of a greyhound, but with a heavier body, larger ears and rougher coat.

The Gordon setter, the chief Scottish variety, is a heavier animal with coarser hair, black-andtan in colour.

The metropolitan sewage was discharged untreated into the river, and the heavier solids deposited over the river-bed, while the lighter parts flowed backwards and forwards on the tide.

The two ratels may be distinguished by the fact that the African species has a distinct white line round the body at the junction of the grey of the upper side with the black of the lower, while in the Indian this line is absent; the teeth also of the former are larger, rounder and, heavier than those of the latter.

Pacas may be distinguished from agoutis by their heavier and more compact build, the longitudinal rows of light spots on the fur, the five-toed hind-feet, and the peculiar structure of the skull, in which the cheek-bones are expanded to form large capsules on the sides of the face, each enclosing a cavity opening on the side of the cheek.

The larger species, as might be expected from their heavier build, are somewhat less strictly arboreal in their habits than the smaller ones.

His cheeks, which were so flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were saying.

Kutuzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information.

The heavier cores, with the consequent advance in speed of working attainable, have necessitated the introduction of automatic sending, the instruments adopted being in general a modification of the Wheatstone transmitter adapted to the form of cable signals, while the regularity of transmission thus secured has caused its introduction even on circuits where the speed cannot exceed that of the ordinary operator's hand signalling.

There has been some improvement, however, while some of the heavier white wines, noticeably the Marsala of Sicily, have excellent keeping qualities.

Sometimes, however, a sharp incline occurring on an otherwise easy line is not reckoned as the ruling gradient, trains heavier than could be drawn up it by a single engine being helped by an assistant or " bank " engine; sometimes also " momentum " or " velocity " grades, steeper than the ruling gradient, are permitted for short distances in cases where a train can approach at full speed and thus surmount them by the aid of its momentum.

The speed at which the journey has to be completed is obviously another important factor, though the increased power of modern locomotives permits trains to be heavier and at the same time to run as fast, and often faster, than was formerly possible, and in consequence the general tendency is towards increased weight as well as increased speed.

Owing to their great height these three ranges receive heavier rainfall than the surrounding country and are feeders to the northern valleys, which constitute the chief agricultural region of the state.

In British tropical possessions the bill is incomparably heavier.

The refined oil is exported as kerosene or petroleum, the heavier refuse (mazut) is used as fuel.

In the British Isles wheat is, as a rule, sown in the autumn on a heavier soil, and has four or five months in which to distribute its roots, and so it gets possession of a wide range of soil and subsoil before barley is sown in the spring.

Although barley is appropriately grown on lighter soils than wheat, good crops, of fair quality, may be grown on the heavier soils after another grain crop by the aid of artificial manures, provided that the land is sufficiently clean.

In the trap-door species of Lycosidae, like, for instance, Lycosa opifex of the Russian steppes, the hinge is weak and the lid of the burrow is kept normally shut by being very much thicker and heavier at its free margin opposite the hinge so that it readily falls by its own weight.

The process of distillation of lubricating oils under reduced atmospheric pressure is now in very general use, especially for obtaining the heavier products.

The fingers of the clock had been pushed back; once more things were as they had been at the time of the First Crusade; once more the West must arm itself for the holy war and the recovery of Jerusalem - but now it must face a united Mahommedan world, where in 1096 it had found political and religious dissension, and it must attempt its vastly heavier task without the morning freshness of a new religious impulse, and with something of the weariness of a hundred years of struggle upon its shoulders.

He also showed that on heating mercury calx alone an " air " was liberated which differed from other " airs," and was slightly heavier than ordinary air; moreover, the weight of the " air " set free from a given weight of the calx was equal to the weight taken up in forming the calx from mercury, and if the calx be heated with charcoal, the metal was recovered and a gas named " fixed air," the modern carbon dioxide, was formed.

The Scotch deerhound is a larger and heavier variety of the English greyhound, with rough and shaggy hair.

There are no navigable streams. The climate and productions are not unlike those of Java, though the rains are heavier, the drought more severe, and the fertility less.

The allies, who were all closely engaged, were anchored among their enemies, and the result was obtained by their heavier broadsides and their better gunnery.

While determining its atomic weight, he thought it desirable, for the sake of accuracy, to weigh it in a vacuum, and even in these circumstances he found that the balance behaved in an anomalous manner, the metal appearing to be heavier when cold than when hot.

The Sao Francisco, which belongs to the inland plateau region, is the largest river of the eastern coast of Brazil and exists by virtue of climatic conditions wholly different from those of the coast where it enters the Atlantic. The tributaries of the lower half of this great river, which belong to the Atlantic coast region, are small and often dry, but the upper river where the rainfall is heavier and more regular receives several large affluents.

Rinderpest in1896-1897swept through South Africa, and probably carried off in Natal from 30 to 40% of the stock of Europeans, while the natives' losses were even heavier.

In these regions the greatest fall is during the summer, though in some years the autumn showers are heavier.