Heavy vs. Big — What's the Difference?

Of great weight; difficult to lift or move

Of considerable size or extent

Of great density; thick or substantial

Of considerable importance or seriousness

Of more than the usual size, amount, or intensity

Generous

Striking or falling with force

Praise or recommend something highly

Needing much physical effort

The major league in a professional sport

Very important or serious

Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large.

A thing, such as a vehicle, that is large or heavy of its kind.

Having great strength or force

Strong beer, especially bitter

Of great significance; momentous

Heavily

Mature or grown-up

Having relatively great weight

Older or eldest. Used especially of a sibling

Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.

Filled up; brimming over

Large, as in number or quantity

Bountiful; generous

Large in yield or output

Pregnant

Of great intensity

Having or exercising considerable authority, control, or influence

Having great power or force

Conspicuous in position, wealth, or importance; prominent

Violent; rough

Loud and firm; resounding

Equipped with massive armaments and weapons

(Informal) Widely liked, used, or practiced; popular

Large enough to fire powerful shells

(Informal) Self-important; cocky

Indulging to a great degree

In a pretentious or boastful way

Involved or participating on a large scale

With considerable success

Of great import or seriousness; grave

In a thorough or unmistakable way; emphatically

Having considerable thickness

Of great size, large.

Broad or coarse

(informal) Fat.

Dense; thick

Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.

Slow to dissipate; strong

(informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.

Too dense or rich to digest easily

(informal) Adult; (of a child) older.

Insufficiently leavened

Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.

Full of clay and readily saturated

.informal Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.

Weighed down; burdened

(informal) Important or significant.

Emotionally weighed down; despondent

Popular.

Marked by or exhibiting weariness

(of a city) Populous.

Sad or painful

(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns

Hard to do or accomplish; arduous

Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.

Not easily borne; oppressive

Enthusiastic (about).

Lacking vitality; deficient in vivacity or grace

In a loud manner.

Sharply inclined; steep

In a boasting manner.

Having a large capacity or designed for rough work

In a large amount or to a large extent.

Of, relating to, or involving the large-scale production of basic products, such as steel

On a large scale, expansively.

Of or relating to a serious dramatic role.

Hard.

(Physics) Of or relating to an isotope with an atomic mass greater than the average mass of that element.

An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.

Loud; sonorous

(in the plural) The big leagues, big time.

(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a syllable ending in a long vowel or in a vowel plus two consonants.

(university slang) A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).

Of great significance or profundity.

(BDSM) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.

Very popular or important

One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

Heavily

To inhabit; occupy.

A serious or tragic role in a play.

To locate oneself.

An actor playing such a role.

To build; erect; fashion.

(Slang) A villain in a story or play.

To dwell; have a dwelling.

(Slang) A mobster.

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

(Slang) One that is very important or influential

Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; - often figuratively.

(of a physical object) Having great weight.

Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.

(of a topic) Serious, somber.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.

Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.

To build.

Good.

Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent;

Profound.

Significant;

(of a rate of flow) High, great.

Of very great significance;

(slang) Armed.

Conspicuous in position or importance;

(of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.

Very intense;

(of weather) Hot and humid.

Loud and firm;

(of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.

Prodigious;

(of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.

(of animals) fully developed;

(of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.

Marked by intense physical force;

Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.

Feeling self-importance;

Laden to a great extent.

Older brother or sister;

Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.

Exhibiting self-importance;

Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.

Generous and understanding and tolerant;

Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.

Given or giving freely;

Not raised or leavened.

In an advanced stage of pregnancy;

(of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.

Extremely well;

(obsolete) With child; pregnant.

In a boastful manner;

(physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.

On a grand scale;

(petroleum) Having high viscosity.

In a major way;

(finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.

Heavily-armed.

Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload,

Especially, having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.

Having the heaves.

In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.

To a great degree; greatly.

Very

(slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.

(slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.

A newspaper of the quality press.

(aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.

(often with "up") To make heavier.

To sadden. en

To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

Having the heaves.

Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.

Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.

Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.

Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.

Loud; deep; - said of sound; as, heavy thunder.

Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; - said of the sky.

Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; - said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.

Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.

Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; - said of food.

Having much body or strength; - said of wines, or other liquors.

With child; pregnant.

Heavily; - sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.

To make heavy.

An actor who plays villainous roles

A serious (or tragic) role in a play

Of comparatively great physical weight or density;

Unusually great in degree or quantity or number;

Of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment;

Having or suggesting a viscous consistency;

Wide from side to side;

Marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness;

Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

(used of soil) compact and fine-grained;

Darkened by clouds;

Of great intensity or power or force;

(physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight;

(of an actor or role) being or playing the villain;

Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter;

Made of fabric having considerable thickness;

Of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately;

Prodigious;

Used of syllables or musical beats

Full and loud and deep;

Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;

Slow and laborious because of weight;

Large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work;

Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal;

Sharply inclined;

Full of; bearing great weight;

Requiring or showing effort;

Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;

Lacking lightness or liveliness;

(of sleep) deep and complete;

In an advanced stage of pregnancy;

Slowly as if burdened by much weight;