Emotions
Synonyms for heavy
Synonyms for heavy: threatening, clayey, hard, leaden, lumbering, sound and weighty. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 7 synonyms for heavy
Interchangeable with heavy, one per sense
Audited under heavy's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one heavy carries in that sense.
- threateningadjective, in the sense "darkened by clouds"
- clayeyadjective, in the sense "compact and fine-grained"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name heavy as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- hardhard is an adjective in the sense "given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors"
- leadenleaden is an adjective in the sense "lacking lightness or liveliness"
- lumberinglumbering is an adjective in the sense "slow and laborious because of weight"
- soundsound is an adjective in the sense "deep and complete"
- weightyweighty is an adjective in the sense "of great gravity or crucial import"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under heavy and five under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
darkened by clouds
A heavy sky.
heavy in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The heavy sky over the harbor kept the fishing boats docked all morning.
- In her letter she described the heavy sky that hung over the village for days.
How it behaves: In this sense, heavy usually appears as an attributive adjective directly before nouns like sky, clouds, or rain, in descriptive or literary prose.
The true synonym
threatening
Same sentence, swapped: A threatening sky.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- large
- grave
- dirty
Opposites, in this sense
clear and bright reverse heavy as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of heavy takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- clear
- bright
compact and fine-grained
The heavy soil held water and clung to our boots.
The true synonym
clayey
Same sentence, swapped: The clayey soil held water and clung to our boots.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where heavy stands in the sentence above.
- large
- grave
- dirty
Where heavy turns up in the game
heavy is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in 11 other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 11 puzzles where heavy is the trap
- lowadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is miserable, in the sense "of the most contemptible kind", so heavy is there to be ruled out.
- secretadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is mysterious, in the sense "having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence", so heavy is there to be ruled out.
- soundadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is good, in the sense "in excellent physical condition", and heavy is one of the three tiles that lose.
- deliciousadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is delightful, in the sense "greatly pleasing or entertaining", and heavy is on the board beside it.
Play heavy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so heavy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because emotions is the company heavy keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. heavy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.