different between heavy vs momentous

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hevy, hevi?, from Old English hefi?, hefe?, hæfi? (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *hab?g (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *hab?gaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p- (“to take, grasp, hold”), equivalent to heave +? -y.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hev?i
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?h?.vi/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?he.vi/
• Rhymes: -?vi

Adjective

heavy (comparative heavier, superlative heaviest)

1. (of a physical object) Having great weight.
2. (of a topic) Serious, somber.
3. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.

   • The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.

   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion

     Sent hither by my Husband to impart the heavy news.

4. (Britain, slang, dated) Good.

5. (dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.

6. (of a rate of flow) High, great.
   • 1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica

     The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs

7. (slang) Armed.

8. (music) Louder, more distorted.

9. (of weather) Hot and humid.
10. (of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.

11. (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.

12. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

      The surf was not heavy, and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing.

13. Laden to a great extent.

14. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
    • 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals

      Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / (Such places heavy Saturnists doe crave,) / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]

15. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
    • a heavy, dull, degenerate mind

    • Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.

16. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.

    a heavy road; a heavy soil

17. Not raised or leavened.

18. (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
19. (obsolete) With child; pregnant.
20. (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
21. (petroleum) Having high viscosity.

Synonyms

• sweer/swear

Antonyms

• light

Derived terms

Pages starting with “heavy”.

Related terms

• heave
• heft

Translations

Adverb

heavy (comparative more heavy, superlative most heavy)

1. In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.

   heavy laden with their sins

2. (colloquial, nonstandard) To a great degree; greatly.
3. (India, colloquial) very

Derived terms

• hang heavy
• heavy-laden

Noun

heavy (plural heavies or heavys)

1. A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.

   With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.

2. (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.

   A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.

3. (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
   • 1973, Allen Hutt, The changing newspaper (page 151)

     The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.

   • 2006, Richard Keeble, The Newspapers Handbook

     Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation.

4. (Should we move, merge or split⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft. (The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.)

Derived terms

• brain heavy
• dog heavy

Translations

Verb

heavy (third-person singular simple present heavies, present participle heavying, simple past and past participle heavied)

1. (often with "up") To make heavier. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. To sadden. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

   The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.

   • 1985, Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives Weekly Hansard, Issue 11, Part 1, page 1570,

     […] the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.

   • 2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557,

     But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone?s tapped. Well, he won?t find anything.

   • 2005, David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005, Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421,

     But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.

Etymology 2

heave +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hi?vi/

Adjective

heavy (comparative more heavy, superlative most heavy)

1. Having the heaves.

   a heavy horse

See also

• heavy cake

References

• heavy at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Havey, Yahve

German

Etymology

From English heavy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?vi/

Adjective

heavy (not comparable)

1. (predicative, colloquial, probably slightly dated) heavy; intense; serious; shocking (extraordinary, especially in a bad way)

   Synonyms: heftig, krass, nicht ohne, ein starkes Stück

Spanish

Etymology

From English heavy (metal).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xebi/, [?xe.??i]

Adjective

heavy (plural heavys)

1. heavy (pertaining to heavy metal)
2. heavy (intense)

English

Etymology

From moment +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m???m?n.t?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo??m?n.t?s/
• Rhymes: -?nt?s

Adjective

momentous (comparative more momentous, superlative most momentous)

1. Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
   • 1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business:

     The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.

   • 1831, James Fenimore Cooper, Homeward Bound, ch. 31:

     "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, The End of the Tether, ch. 3:

     What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.

   • 2007 July 1, Richard Dawkins, "Inferior Design," New York Times (retrieved 19 Nov 2013):

     Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.

Derived terms

• momentously
• momentousness

Translations

Anagrams

• mesonotum