Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "heavily" []

  • With a great weight or burden: heavily laden. (adverb)
  • Very slowly and with difficulty; laboriously: walking heavily through the snow. (adverb)
  • Greatly or severely: heavily in debt. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "heavily" in a sentence
  • "I think it’s also worth mentioning that the “men shop for power tools and women shop for curtains” phenomenon is something that is, if not outright created, heavily, *heavily* influenced by our society."
  • "In a brief statement, the museum's communications department stressed that untoward incidents have been few and far between during the run of what it described as a heavily trafficked show."
  • "I'm prone to inordinate "screen time," a term heavily freighted with negative baggage in our household, and Levi's childhood will be far more digitally immersed than mine."