Buxom vs. Heavy

Pliant, obedient, tractable (to) (i.e. easily moved or bent, morally).

(obsolete) Submissive, humble, meek (as subsense of 4).

(obsolete) Gracious, indulgent, favourable; obliging, amiable, courteous, affable, kindly (as subsense of 1).

(obsolete) With infinitive: Easily moved, prone, ready (as subsense of 1).

Flexible, pliant (arising from sense 1).

Blithe, gladsome, bright, lively, gay (attested after 1).

Cheerful, happy (possibly as subsense of 6).

Full of health, vigour, and good temper; well-favoured, plump and comely, 'jolly', comfortable-looking (in person). (arising from sense 6).

(of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts (as subsense of 8).

Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.

Example: ‘So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be,And buxom to his bands, is joy to see.’; ‘I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.’;

Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

Example: ‘A daughter fair,So buxom, blithe, and debonair.’; ‘A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.’;

having a pronounced womanly shape.

(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves;

Example: ‘Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes’; ‘a curvy young woman in a tight dress’;

euphemisms for slightly fat;

Example: ‘a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular’; ‘chubby babies’; ‘pleasingly plump’;

(of a physical object) Having great weight.

(of a topic) Serious, somber.

Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.

Example: ‘heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.’;

Good.

Example: ‘This film is heavy.’;

Profound.

Example: ‘The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.’;

(of a rate of flow) High, great.

(slang) Armed.

Example: ‘Come heavy, or not at all.’;

(music) Louder, more distorted.

Example: ‘Metal is heavier than swing.’;

(of weather) Hot and humid.

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

Example: ‘He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker - certainly not an ideal husband.’;

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

Example: ‘Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.’;

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

Example: ‘it was a heavy storm;’; ‘a heavy slumber in bed;’; ‘a heavy punch’;

Laden to a great extent.

Example: ‘his eyes were heavy with sleep;’; ‘she was heavy with child’;

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

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

Example: ‘a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.’; ‘a heavy writer or book’;

Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.

Example: ‘a heavy road; a heavy soil’;

Not raised or leavened.

Example: ‘heavy bread’;

Having much body or strength; said of wines or spirits.

(obsolete) With child; pregnant.

(physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one

Having the heaves.

Example: ‘a heavy horse’;

heavily

Example: ‘heavy laden with their sins’;

very

A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.

Example: ‘With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.’;

(slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.

Example: ‘A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.’;

(aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.

Example: ‘The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.’;

(often with "up") To make heavier.

To sadden.

To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

Example: ‘The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.’;

Having the heaves.

Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.

Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

Example: ‘The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.’; ‘The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.’; ‘Sent hither to impart the heavy news.’; ‘Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.’;

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

Example: ‘The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.’; ‘A light wife doth make a heavy husband.’;

Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.

Example: ‘Whilst the heavy plowman snores.’; ‘Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.’; ‘Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear.’;

Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.

Loud; deep; - said of sound; as, heavy thunder.

Example: ‘But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more.’;

Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; - said of the sky.

Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; - said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.

Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.

Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; - said of food.

Having much body or strength; - said of wines, or other liquors.

With child; pregnant.

Heavily; - sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.

To make heavy.

an actor who plays villainous roles

a serious (or tragic) role in a play

of comparatively great physical weight or density;

Example: ‘a heavy load’; ‘lead is a heavy metal’; ‘heavy mahogony furniture’;

unusually great in degree or quantity or number;

Example: ‘heavy taxes’; ‘a heavy fine’; ‘heavy casualties’; ‘heavy losses’; ‘heavy rain’; ‘heavy traffic’;

of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment;

Example: ‘heavy artillery’; ‘heavy infantry’; ‘a heavy cruiser’; ‘heavy guns’; ‘heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries’;

having or suggesting a viscous consistency;

Example: ‘heavy cream’;

wide from side to side;

Example: ‘a heavy black mark’;

marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness;

Example: ‘a heavy heart’; ‘a heavy schedule’; ‘heavy news’; ‘a heavy silence’; ‘heavy eyelids’;

usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

(used of soil) compact and fine-grained;

Example: ‘the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated’;

darkened by clouds;

Example: ‘a heavy sky’;

of great intensity or power or force;

Example: ‘a heavy blow’; ‘the fighting was heavy’; ‘heavy seas’;

(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight;

Example: ‘heavy hydrogen’; ‘heavy water’;

(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain;

Example: ‘Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'’;

permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter;

Example: ‘dense smoke’; ‘heavy fog’; ‘impenetrable gloom’;

made of fabric having considerable thickness;

Example: ‘a heavy coat’;

of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately;

Example: ‘does a lot of hard drinking’; ‘a heavy drinker’;

prodigious;

Example: ‘big spender’; ‘big eater’; ‘heavy investor’;

used of syllables or musical beats

full and loud and deep;

Example: ‘heavy sounds’; ‘a herald chosen for his sonorous voice’;

of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;

Example: ‘grave responsibilities’; ‘faced a grave decision in a time of crisis’; ‘a grievous fault’; ‘heavy matters of state’; ‘the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference’;

slow and laborious because of weight;

Example: ‘the heavy tread of tired troops’; ‘moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot’; ‘ponderous prehistoric beasts’; ‘a ponderous yawn’;

large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work;

Example: ‘a heavy truck’; ‘heavy machinery’;

dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal;

Example: ‘a heavy pudding’;

sharply inclined;

Example: ‘a heavy grade’;

full of; bearing great weight;

Example: ‘trees heavy with fruit’; ‘vines weighed down with grapes’;

requiring or showing effort;

Example: ‘heavy breathing’; ‘the subject made for labored reading’;

characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;

Example: ‘worked their arduous way up the mining valley’; ‘a grueling campaign’; ‘hard labor’; ‘heavy work’; ‘heavy going’; ‘spent many laborious hours on the project’; ‘set a punishing pace’;

lacking lightness or liveliness;

Example: ‘heavy humor’; ‘a leaden conversation’;

(of sleep) deep and complete;

Example: ‘a heavy sleep’; ‘fell into a profound sleep’; ‘a sound sleeper’; ‘deep wakeless sleep’;

in an advanced stage of pregnancy;

Example: ‘was big with child’; ‘was great with child’;

slowly as if burdened by much weight;

Example: ‘time hung heavy on their hands’;

of great weight; difficult to lift or move

Example: ‘a heavy and bulky load’; ‘the pan was too heavy for me to carry’;

used in questions about weight

Example: ‘how heavy is it?’;

(of a class of thing) above the average weight; large of its kind

Example: ‘heavy woollens’; ‘heavy artillery’;

weighed down; full of something

Example: ‘branches heavy with blossoms’;

(of a person's head or eyes) feeling weighed down by weariness

Example: ‘a heavy head’;

of great density; thick or substantial

Example: ‘heavy horn-rimmed glasses’; ‘heavy grey clouds’;

not delicate or graceful; coarse

Example: ‘he had a big moustache and heavy features’;

(of food) hard to digest; too filling.

(of ground or soil) muddy or full of clay.

(of a smell) very strong; overpowering

Example: ‘a heavy scent of oil’;

(of the sky) full of dark clouds; oppressive

Example: ‘a heavy thundery sky’;

of or containing atoms of an isotope of greater than the usual mass.

of more than the usual size, amount, or intensity

Example: ‘a heavy cold’; ‘I fell into a heavy sleep’; ‘the traffic was heavy and I was delayed’;

using a lot of

Example: ‘stories heavy on melodrama’;

doing something more, or more deeply, than usual

Example: ‘a heavy smoker’;

striking or falling with force

Example: ‘a heavy blow to the head’; ‘we had heavy overnight rain’;

(of music, especially rock) having a strong bass component and a forceful rhythm.

needing much physical effort

Example: ‘heavy work like repairing pathways’;

moving slowly or with difficulty

Example: ‘steering that is heavy when parking’;

very important or serious

Example: ‘a heavy discussion’;

(of a literary work) overly serious or difficult.

mentally oppressive; hard to endure

Example: ‘a heavy burden of responsibility’;

feeling or expressing sadness

Example: ‘I left him with a heavy heart’;

serious or difficult to deal with

Example: ‘things were getting pretty heavy’;

(of a person) strict or harsh

Example: ‘my parents were getting really heavy with me in terms of work’;

excellent (used as a general term of approval).

a thing, such as a vehicle, that is large or heavy of its kind.

a large, strong man, especially one hired for protection

Example: ‘I needed money to pay off the heavies’;

serious newspapers

Example: ‘reporters from the Sunday heavies’;

an important person

Example: ‘music business heavies’;

strong beer, especially bitter

Example: ‘a pint of heavy’;

heavily

Example: ‘heavy-laden’;