HEAVY

Heavy

Heavy is a 1995 independent American drama film written and directed by James Mangold, and starring Liv Tyler, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, and Deborah Harry. The plot focuses on an unhappy overweight cook and the changes which are brought into his life after an enchanting college drop-out begins working as a waitress at his and his mother's roadside tavern. The film explores themes of loneliness, false hope, unrequited love, and the problematic nature of self worth.

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heavy

Noun

  1. A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
    With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
  2. A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
    A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
  3. A large multi-engined aircraft.
    The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.

Verb

  1. To make heavier.
  2. To sadden.
  3. To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
    The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.

Adjective

  1. Having great weight.
  2. Serious, somber.
  3. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
    heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
  4. Good.
  5. Profound.
  6. High, great.
  7. Armed.
  8. Louder, more distorted.
  9. Hot and humid.
  10. Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
  11. High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
  12. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
  13. Laden to a great extent.
  14. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
  15. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
    a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
    a heavy writer or book
  16. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
    a heavy road; a heavy soil
  17. Not raised or leavened.
    heavy bread
  18. Having much body or strength; said of wines or spirits.
  19. With child; pregnant.

Adjective (etymology 2)

  1. Having the heaves.
    a heavy horse

Adverb

  1. heavily
    heavy laden with their sins
  2. very


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