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heavy

  • adjective
  • hevʹi

Having great weight.

Example

“Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.”

Other meanings

  1. Heavyset: overweight.

  2. serious, somber.

Example sentences

  • “This box isn't heavy.”

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Word history

From Old English "hefiġ".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “heavy” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.