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unearthly, other-worldly, ultramundane, extramundane,
extraterrestrial: Alone on the mountain, she heard a heavenly
voice calling her name. 2 delightful, wonderful, marvellous,
sublime, paradisiac(al) or paradisaic(al), glorious, splendid,
superb, exquisite, perfect, ideal, excellent, fantastic,
rapturous, entrancing, blissful, Colloq gorgeous, divine,
smashing, great: Andr‚'s serves a perfectly heavenly lobster
thermidor.
heavy 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