heavy: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 14 letter points · starts with H · ends with Y
Meaning of heavy
adj
Having great weight.
Example: Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.
Having great weight. Heavyset: overweight.
Example: When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit.
Serious, somber.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
Example: heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
Listed forms: heavier, heaviest.
Source: Wiktionary — heavy.
adv
In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
- India, colloquial
very
- colloquial, nonstandard
To a great degree; greatly.
Source: Wiktionary — heavy.
noun
- slang
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.
A prominent figure; a "major player".
- in-plural, slang
A newspaper of the quality press.
Listed forms: heavies, heavys.
Source: Wiktionary — heavy.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for heavy.
adjective
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
adjective
(used of soil) compact and fine-grained
adjective
darkened by clouds
adjective
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is heavy in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of heavy
H(4) + E(1) + A(1) + V(4) + Y(4) = 14 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of heavy
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from heavy
15 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in heavy. Showing up to 24, longest first.