heavily
/ˈhɛvɪli/
heavily adverb: with a great weight.
Adverb
heavily (comparative more heavily, superlative most heavily)
- With a great weight.
- heavily burdened
- She fell heavily into bed.
- To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
- He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.
- Your advice still weighs heavily with me.
- In a manner designed for heavy duty.
- heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls
- Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- So as to be thick or heavy.
- heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms
- In a laboured manner.
- he breathed heavily
heavily meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
heavily in Hindi
- heavily, strongly, forcibly
- कसके kaske
heavily in Tamil
- உரக்க
heavily in Urdu
- بےزاری سے, بوجھل طور پر
heavily in Bengali
- অত্যন্ত ভারাক্রান্ত হইয়া
More languagesFewer languages
- heavily in Malayalam
- ഭാരമായി, ബലവത്തായി, സാവധാനത്തിൽ
Examples of heavily in a sentence
- He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.
- The great clod trod heavily on my toes!
- This problem weighs heavily on my mind.
- heavily in debt; heavily tattooed
- Friends noted he was not his happy self and began drinking heavily.2026 July 18, Nicholas Muhoro, “Bryce Laspisa Vanished Near Castaic Lake After Spending 13 Hours Parked on a California Highway”, in Skip...
Forms of heavily
| comparative | more heavily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most heavily |
| alternative form (obsolete) | heauily |
Origin of heavily
From Middle English hevely, hevyliche, from Old English hefiġlīċe (“heavily; grievously”), equivalent to heavy + -ly.
Words formed from heavily
Questions about heavily
- What does heavily mean?
- Heavily means with a great weight.
- What is heavily in Hindi?
- Heavily in Hindi is कसके (kaske). See Heavily meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use heavily in a sentence?
- He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.
- What part of speech is heavily?
- Heavily is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce heavily?
- Heavily is pronounced /ˈhɛvɪli/.
Words near heavily in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heavily (page history and authors); कसके (Hindi) (page history and authors); heavily (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heavily (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heavily (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heavily (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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