Word Meanings - HEAVINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEAVINESS)
- deadness
- Torpor
- flatness
- faintness
- heaviness
- Travail
- Labor
- toil
- affliction
- weight
- Gravity
- ponderosity
- pressure
- burden
- importance
- power
- influence
- efficacy
- consequence
- moment
- impressiveness
Related words: (words related to HEAVINESS)
- LABOR-SAVING
Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery. - LABORIOUS
1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic. - LABORED
Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - LABOROUS
Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot. - LABOR
The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. 7. Etym: (more info) 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - BURDENER
One who loads; a oppressor. - MOMENTARILY
Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone. - WEIGHTINESS
The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness. - WEIGHTILY
In a weighty manner. - AFFLICTION
1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or - LABORATORY
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the - MOMENTOUS
Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Mo*men"tous*ly, adv. -- Mo*men"tous*ness, n. - EFFICACY
Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force; - CONSEQUENCE
A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference. 3. Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows - TORPOR
1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness. 2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties. - PRESSURE WIRES
Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points. - AFFLICTIONLESS
Free from affliction. - TRAVAILOUS
Causing travail; laborious. Wyclif. -- Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. Wyclif. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - OVERLABOR
1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly. - COLABORER
One who labors with another; an associate in labor. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - ELABORATION
The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, - UNLABORED
1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell. - WELTERWEIGHT
1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that - IMPOWER
See EMPOWER - IMMOMENTOUS
Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant. A. Seward. - UNDERLABORER
An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.