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.”
Recent Examples on the Web
The success of an advertising campaign can depend heavily on the platform used to deliver it.
—
Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The lowest 688 feet of the ice core above the bedrock is made of older ice that is heavily deformed.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2025
Of those, 52 were for vehicles with obstructed or blocked license plates — a violation that’s been heavily targeted since the congestion pricing program went into effect Sunday.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
To avoid detection, the app is heavily disguised using a tool called DexGuard.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The lowest 688 feet of the ice core above the bedrock is made of older ice that is heavily deformed.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2025
Of those, 52 were for vehicles with obstructed or blocked license plates — a violation that’s been heavily targeted since the congestion pricing program went into effect Sunday.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
To avoid detection, the app is heavily disguised using a tool called DexGuard.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
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 20 Jan. 2025.
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