Word.ws English Dictionary

nonheavy

nonheavy adjective: not heavy.

Adjective

nonheavy (not comparable)

  1. Not heavy.
    • nonheavy metals
    • Thus, the positive output effect of Taiwan's proposed goods liberalization on the nonheavy manufacturing sector stems from the shift in relative industrial protection toward the nonheavy manufacturing sector.2007, Takatoshi Ito, Anne O. Krueger, Trade in Services in the Asia-Pacific Region

Examples of nonheavy in a sentence

  • Specifically, store personnel displayed microinequities—they smiled less, they spoke fewer words, and they were more rude and less friendly with heavy (versus nonheavy) individuals.2013, C. Nathan DeWall, The Oxford Handbook of Social Exclusion, page 58:
  • Among the nonheavy drinkers also, those who were depressed had a more difficult time stopping drinking once they had begun.2014, Arthur Alterman, Substance Abuse and Psychopathology, page 24:

Origin of nonheavy

From non- + heavy.

Questions about nonheavy

What does nonheavy mean?
Nonheavy means not heavy.
How do you use nonheavy in a sentence?
Specifically, store personnel displayed microinequities—they smiled less, they spoke fewer words, and they were more rude and less friendly with heavy (versus nonheavy) individuals.
What part of speech is nonheavy?
Nonheavy is an adjective.

Words near nonheavy in the dictionary

  1. nonhearing
  2. nonheart
  3. nonheated
  4. nonheathen
  5. nonheathens
  6. nonheavy
  7. nonheavyweight
  8. nonhedged
  9. nonhedonic
  10. nonhedonistic
  11. nonhegemonic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nonheavy (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nonheavy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nonheavy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.