Dense vs. Heavy

Having relatively high density.

Compact; crowded together.

Thick; difficult to penetrate.

Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

Obscure, or difficult to understand.

Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on dense sets for mathematical definition.

Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.ADJ7

A thicket.

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.

Example: ‘All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare.’; ‘To replace the cloudy barrier dense.’;

Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

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

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

closely crowded together;

Example: ‘a compact shopping center’; ‘a dense population’; ‘thick crowds’;

hard to pass through because of dense growth;

Example: ‘dense vegetation’; ‘thick woods’;

having high relative density or specific gravity;

Example: ‘dense as lead’;

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;

Example: ‘so dense he never understands anything I say to him’; ‘never met anyone quite so dim’; ‘although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick’; ‘dumb officials make some really dumb decisions’; ‘he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse’; ‘worked with the slow students’;

closely compacted in substance

Example: ‘as the storm cleared, a dense fog came down’;

having the constituent parts crowded closely together

Example: ‘she made her way through the dense undergrowth’;

(of a person) stupid

Example: ‘Am I being dense? I don't quite understand’;

(of a text) hard to understand because of its complexity of ideas

Example: ‘a dark, dense novel’;

(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’;