dry vs heavy

dry

adj
  • Lacking interest, boring. 

  • Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages. 

  • Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter. 

  • Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent. 

  • Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom. 

  • Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion. 

  • Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned. 

  • Athirst, eager. 

  • Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened. 

  • Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb). 

  • Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust. 

  • Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color. 

  • Amusing without showing amusement. 

  • Built without or lacking mortar. 

  • Free from or lacking moisture. 

  • Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness 

  • Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk. 

  • Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids. 

noun
  • The process by which something is dried. 

  • The dry season. 

  • A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). 

  • Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger. 

  • A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. 

  • An area of waterless country. 

  • An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it. 

verb
  • To remove moisture from. 

  • To lose moisture. 

  • To exhaust; to cause to run dry. 

  • For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing. 

heavy

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

  • Having high viscosity. 

  • Laden to a great extent. 

  • Serious, somber. 

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

  • Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive. 

  • Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining. 

  • Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one. 

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

  • Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people. 

  • High, great. 

  • Armed. 

  • Heavily-armed. 

  • Having great weight. 

  • Not raised or leavened. 

  • Having the heaves. 

  • Having much body or strength. 

  • High in fat or protein; difficult to digest. 

  • Loud, distorted, or intense. 

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

  • Hot and humid. 

  • With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness. 

  • Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey. 

  • Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload, 

adv
  • very 

  • To a great degree; greatly. 

  • In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely. 

noun
  • A newspaper of the quality press. 

  • A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. 

  • A relatively large multi-engined aircraft. 

  • A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. 

verb
  • To make heavier. 

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

  • To sadden. 

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