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Heavy Adjective Synonyms
unhappy, miserable, depressed, melancholy, grieving, sad, dejected, downhearted, disconsolate, downcast, despondent, gloomy, heavy-hearted, morose, crestfallen, cheerless
Heavy at heart, he returned to his cheerless home.

intense, concentrated, severe, forceful, violent, torrential
The snowfall was the heaviest of the year.

burdensome, onerous, oppressive, weighty, unbearable, severe, grievous, distressful, sore, intolerable, insupportable or unsupportable, awful
Teenagers often feel that they are weighed down with heavy responsibilities.

gloomy, cloudy, overcast, bleak, dismal, dreary, leaden, grey, dark, louring or lowering, threatening
It was another of Scotland's heavy February days.

thick, coarse, broad, blunt, clumsy, ungraceful
These heavy brush-strokes prove that the painting is not a Turner.

weighty, difficult, complex, recondite, arcane, deep, profound, esoteric, incomprehensible, impenetrable, unfathomable
He specializes in some heavy subject like micro-palaeontology.

ponderous, tedious, monotonous, boring, uninteresting, leaden, dull, prosaic, dry, dry-as-dust, stodgy, staid, stuffy, stifling, stultifying
The critics found the style much too heavy for the subject being treated.

overweight, fat, obese, stout, chubby, plump, corpulent, portly, paunchy, tubby, podgy or pudgy, beer-bellied
The doctor did not say I was too heavy, only that I ought to be six inches taller.

burdened, laden, encumbered, loaded, overloaded, weighed down
We spied two Indiamen, heavy with cargoes of spices, sailing towards us.

weighty, ponderous, massive, massy, compact, dense
This box is much too heavy for me to lift.

abundant, overflowing, excessive, copious, profuse, prodigious, ample, unmanageable
We just crawled along in the heavy traffic.

sad, sorrowful, distressing, grievous, upsetting, depressing, gloomy, sombre, melancholy
Some heavy news has been received from the front.

serious, grave, important, crucial, critical, acute
You always bring up heavy topics at the end of the meeting.

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