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heavy
adjective as in having great weight
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awkward, big, bulky, burdensome, considerable, cumbersome, excessive, fat, hefty, huge, large, massive, substantial, unwieldy, weighty
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adjective as in difficult, severe
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arduous, burdensome, complicated, hard, harsh, onerous, rough, serious, tedious, tough, violent, weighty
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abstruse, acroamatic, boisterous, confused, effortful, esoteric, formidable, grievous, intolerable, knotty, labored, laborious, oppressive, profound, recondite, solemn, stormy, strenuous, tempestuous, toilsome, troublesome, turbulent, vexatious, wearisome
adjective as in depressed; gloomy weather
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cloudy, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dull, grieving, leaden, oppressive, sad, sodden, soggy, sorrowful
adjective as in listless, slow
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Example Sentences
And yet the government’s heavy focus on policing and security has paid off in some ways.
“For the past four years, we have been heavy on compassion and light on accountability,” Dyer said.
Beyond wind, rain and snow, the storm could also bring flash flooding, rock slides and debris flows as well as heavy mountain snow and blizzard conditions in areas of high elevation.
But the weight of expectations is a heavy thing to bear and they bog down this capable movie version on its way to liftoff.
To the north, areas around Bakhmut have remained a flashpoint and have endured some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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