heavy
US: /ˈhɛvi/
UK: /hˈɛvi/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
heavy /'hevi/- tính từ
- nặng, nặng nề ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- a heavy burden: gánh nặng
- a heavy task: công việc nặng nề
- a heavy wound: vết thương nặng
- a heavy sleep: giấc ngủ nặng nề
- a heavy drinker: người nghiện rượu nặng
- heavy losses: thiệt hại nặng
- (+ with) chất nặng, chứa đầy, nặng trĩu
- cart-with goods: xe bò chất nặng hàng hoá
- air-wirth the scent of roses: không khí ngát hương hoa hồng
- nặng, khó tiêu (thức ăn)
- (quân sự) nặng trọng
- heavy guns (artillery): trọng pháo, súng lớn
- heavy metal: trọng pháo, súng lớn; (nghĩa bóng) địch thủ đáng gờm, địch thủ ghê gớm
- nhiều, bội, rậm rạp
- heavy crop: vụ mùa bội thu
- heavy foliage: cành lá rậm rạp
- lớn, to, dữ dội, kịch liệt
- heavy storm: bão lớn
- heavy rain: mưa to, mưa như trút nước
- heavy sea: biển động dữ dội
- chắc, bì bì, không xốp, không nở (bột bánh...)
- chán ngắt, buồn tẻ, không hấp dẫn (tác phẩm văn học nghệ thuật)
- âm u, u ám, ảm đạm
- heavy sky: bầu trời âm u
- lấy lội khó đi (đường sá...)
- tối dạ, chậm hiểu, đần độn (người)
- trông nặng trình trịch, vụng về khó coi, thô
- đau buồn, đau đớn, bi thảm, chán nản, thất vọng
- heavy news: tin buồn
- a heavy heart: lòng nặng trĩu đau buồn
- a heavy fate: số phận đáng buồn, số phận bi thảm
- buồn ngủ
- to be heavy with sleep: buồn ngủ rũ ra
- (sân khấu) nghiêm nghị, khắc khổ
- to play the part of a heavy father: đóng vai một ông bố nghiêm nghị khắc khổ
- (hoá học) đặc, khó bay hơi
- heavy oil: dầu đặc
- to be heavy on (in) hand
- khó cầm cương (ngựa)
- (nghĩa bóng) khó làm vui, khoa làm cho khuây khoả (người)
- heavy swell
- (thông tục) người lên khung để tỏ vẻ ta đây quan trọng
- nặng, nặng nề ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- phó từ
- nặng, nặng nề
- to lie heavy on...: đè nặng lên...
- chậm chạp
- time hangs heavy: thời gian trôi đi chậm chạp
- nặng, nặng nề
- danh từ, số nhiều heavies
- đội cận vệ Rồng
- (số nhiều) (the Heavies) trọng pháo
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) võ sĩ hạng nặng, đồ vật hạng nặng; người nặng trên trung bình
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) vai nghiêm nghị khắc khổ (trên sân khấu)
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, noun, adverb+ adjective (heavier, heaviest)
weighing a lot
1 weighing a lot; difficult to lift or move: She was struggling with a heavy suitcase. + My brother is much heavier than me. + He tried to push the heavy door open. + How heavy is it (= how much does it weigh)? + (figurative) Her father carried a heavy burden of responsibility.
Antonym: LIGHT
worse than usual
2 more or worse than usual in amount, degree, etc: the noise of heavy traffic + heavy frost / rain / snow + the effects of heavy drinking + There was heavy fighting in the capital last night. + The penalty for speeding can be a heavy fine. + She spoke with heavy irony.
Antonym: LIGHT
not delicate
3 (of sb/sth's appearance or structure) large and solid; not delicate: big, dark rooms full of heavy furniture + He was tall and strong, with heavy features.
Antonym: LIGHT
material
4 (of the material or substance that sth is made of) thick: heavy curtains + a heavy coat
Antonym: LIGHT
full of sth
5 ~ with sth (literary) full of or loaded with sth: trees heavy with apples + The air was heavy with the scent of flowers. + His voice was heavy with sarcasm. + She was heavy with child (= pregnant).
machines
6 [usually before noun] (of machines, vehicles or weapons) large and powerful: a wide range of engines and heavy machinery + heavy lorries / trucks + heavy goods vehicles
busy
7 [usually before noun] involving a lot of work or activity; very busy: a heavy schedule + She'd had a heavy day.
work
8 hard, especially because it requires a lot of physical strength: heavy digging / lifting
fall / hit
9 falling or hitting sth with a lot of force: a heavy fall / blow
meal / food
10 large in amount or very solid: a heavy lunch / dinner + a heavy cake + Avoid heavy foods that are difficult to digest.
Antonym: LIGHT
using a lot
11 ~ on sth (informal) using a lot of sth: Older cars are heavy on gas. + Don't go so heavy on the garlic.
drinker / smoker / sleeper
12 [only before noun] (of a person) doing the thing mentioned more, or more deeply, than usual: a heavy drinker / eater / smoker + a heavy breather / sleeper
sound
13 (of a sound that sb makes) loud and deep: heavy breathing / snoring + a heavy groan / sigh
serious / difficult
14 (usually disapproving) (of a book, programme, style, etc.) serious; difficult to understand or enjoy: We found the play very heavy. + The discussion got a little heavy.
sea / ocean
15 dangerous because of big waves, etc: strong winds and heavy seas
air / weather
16 hot and lacking fresh air, in a way that is unpleasant: It's very heavy-I think there'll be a storm.
soil
17 wet, sticky and difficult to dig or to move over
strict
18 (of a person) very strict and harsh: Don't be so heavy on her-it wasn't her fault.
heavily adverb: a heavily loaded van + to drink heavily + to be heavily taxed + to rely heavily on sb/sth + He fell heavily. + It was raining heavily.
heaviness noun [U]
Idioms: get heavy (informal) to become very serious, because strong feelings are involved: They started shouting at me. It got very heavy. + Then he got heavy and tried to kiss me.
heavy going used to describe sb/sth that is difficult to deal with or understand: She's a bit heavy going. + I found the course rather heavy going.
heavy hand a way of doing sth or of treating people that is much stronger and less sensitive than it needs to be: the heavy hand of management
a heavy heart a feeling of great sadness: She left her children behind with a heavy heart.
the heavy mob / brigade (BrE, informal) a group of strong, often violent people employed to do sth such as protect sb
a heavy silence / atmosphere a situation when people do not say anything, but feel embarrassed or uncomfortable
make heavy weather of sth to seem to find sth more difficult or complicated than it needs to be: People in this country make such heavy weather of learning languages.
more at CROSS n., TOLL n.
+ noun (plural heavies)
1 [C] (informal) a large strong man whose job is to protect a person or place, often using violence
2 [U] (ScotE) strong beer, especially BITTER: a pint of heavy
adverb
Idioms: hang / lie heavy
1 ~ (on / in sth) (of a feeling or sth in the air) to be very noticeable in a particular place in a way that is unpleasant: Smoke lay heavy on the far side of the water. + Despair hangs heavy in the stifling air.
2 ~ on sb/sth to cause sb/sth to feel uncomfortable or anxious: The crime lay heavy on her conscience.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 weighty, ponderous, massive, Literary massy; compact, dense:
This box is much too heavy for me to lift.
2 abundant, overflowing, excessive, copious, profuse, prodigious, ample, unmanageable:
We just crawled along in the heavy traffic.
3 serious, grave, important, crucial, critical, acute:
You always bring up heavy topics at the end of the meeting.
4 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.
5 sad, sorrowful, distressing, grievous, upsetting, depressing, gloomy, sombre, melancholy:
Some heavy news has been received from the front.
6 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.
7 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
8 thick, coarse, broad, blunt, clumsy, ungraceful:
These heavy brush-strokes prove that the painting is not a Turner.
9 gloomy, cloudy, overcast, bleak, dismal, dreary, leaden, grey, dark, louring or lowering, threatening:
it was another of Scotland's heavy February days.
10 intense, concentrated, severe, forceful, violent, torrential:
The snowfall was the heaviest of the year.
11 overweight, fat, obese, stout, chubby, plump, corpulent, portly, paunchy, tubby, Brit podgy or US pudgy, Colloq beer-bellied:
The doctor did not say I was too heavy, only that I ought to be six inches taller.
12 weighty, difficult, complex, recondite, arcane, deep, profound, esoteric, incomprehensible, impenetrable, unfathomable:
He specializes in some heavy subject like micro-palaeontology.
13 burdened, laden, encumbered, loaded, overloaded, weighed down:
We spied two Indiamen, heavy with cargoes of spices, sailing towards us.
Collocation
1 weighing a lot
VERBS
be, feel, look, seem
My suitcase was beginning to feel very heavy.
| become, get
You're getting too heavy to carry!
| make sth
The bottles of wine made the bag even heavier.
| find sth
I didn't find it too heavy to carry.
ADV.
extremely, really, very | fairly, pretty, quite, rather
Be careful. That box is rather heavy.
2 worse than usual
VERBS
be | become, get
The rain was getting quite heavy.
ADV.
extremely, really, very
The traffic's really heavy on the bypass.
| fairly, pretty, quite
Concise dictionary
heavier|heaviest|heavies'hevɪnoun
+an actor who plays villainous roles
+a serious (or tragic) role in a play
adj.
+of comparatively great physical weight or density
+unusually great in degree or quantity or number
+of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
+marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
+usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
+(used of soil) compact and fine-grained
+darkened by clouds
+of great intensity or power or force
+(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
+(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
+permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
+of relatively large extent and density
+made of fabric having considerable thickness
+prodigious
+full and loud and deep
+given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
+of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
+slow and laborious because of weight
+large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
+dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
+sharply inclined
+full of; bearing great weight
+requiring or showing effort
+characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
+lacking lightness or liveliness
+(of sleep) deep and complete
+in an advanced stage of pregnancy
adv.
+slowly as if burdened by much weight
