heavy

Four men lifting a heavy sideboard.

Meanings

Having great weight.
Serious, somber.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
Good.
Profound.
High, great.
Armed.
Louder, more distorted.
Hot and humid.
Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
Laden to a great extent.
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.
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
Not raised or leavened.
Having much body or strength.
With child; pregnant.
Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
Having high viscosity.
Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
Having the heaves.

A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
A newspaper of the quality press.
A large multi-engined aircraft. (The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.)

To make heavier.
To sadden.
To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *habīg ("heavy, hefty, weighty"), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz ("heavy, hefty, weighty"), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- ("to take, grasp, hold").
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy, Dutch hevig ("violent, severe, intense, acute"), Middle Low German hēvich ("violent, fierce, intense"), German hebig (compare heftig), Icelandic höfugur ("heavy, weighty, important"), Latin capāx ("large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt").
heave + -y

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