1
: to a great degree : severely
2
: slowly and laboriously : dully
3
archaic
: with sorrow : grievously
4
: in a heavy manner
Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of heavily in a Sentence
He relies heavily on his wife for advice.
These artists borrow heavily from Picasso.
Our flowers were heavily damaged by a late spring frost.
She drank and smoked heavily for years.
He sat down heavily on the couch.
He was leaning heavily on the table.
She sighed heavily then said “Okay, I'll do it.”
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That film, which was heavily maligned and even became an ongoing joke by Reynolds himself, was Hollywood's first incarnation of a solo live-action title.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2024
In addition to managing risk, institutional investors are leaning more heavily on active management.
—Lawrence Carrel, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Companies that are heavily invested in this area will likely keep investing.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
Musk's companies, such as Tesla and SpaceX, are heavily regulated.
—Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2024
In addition to managing risk, institutional investors are leaning more heavily on active management.
—Lawrence Carrel, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Companies that are heavily invested in this area will likely keep investing.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
Musk's companies, such as Tesla and SpaceX, are heavily regulated.
—Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for heavily
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“Heavily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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