Heavily
English
Adverb
Heavily (comparative more Heavily, superlative most Heavily)
- in a heavy manner
- She fell heavily into bed.
- He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.
- The great clod trod heavily on my toes!
- with a great weight
- heavily burdened
- to a considerable degree, to a great extent
- He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.
- heavily in debt
- He drank heavily.
- heavily tattooed
- in a manner designed for heavy duty
- heavily armed soldiers
- heavily armoured tanks
- heavily reinforced walls
- so as to be thick or heavy
- heavily built young men
- his heavily muscled arms
- in a laboured manner
- he breathed heavily
Thesaurus
apathetically, aridly, barrenly, bleakly, bloodlessly, burdensomely, close, closely, coldly, colorlessly, compactly, cumbersomely, densely, dismally, dormantly, draggily, drearily, drearisomely, dryly, dully, dustily, effetely, emptily, firmly, funereally, gloomily, gravely, grimly, heavy, hollowly, impassively, inactively, inanely, inertly, insipidly, jejunely, languidly, languorously, latently, leadenly, lifelessly, onerously, pallidly, passively, phlegmatically, ploddingly, pointlessly, ponderously, sadly, slowly, sluggishly, solemnly, solidly, somberly, sombrously, spiritlessly, stagnantly, statically, stodgily, stoically, stolidly, stuffily, superficially, tastelessly, tediously, thick, thickly, torpidly, uninterestingly, vapidly, weightily
Etymology
heavy
