heavily
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Synonyms & Antonyms for heavily
Synonyms
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also 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
Antonyms
little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
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Hurricane Dorian’s path of destruction over the Bahamas earlier this week is prompting the cruise lines that rely heavily on Bahamian ports to step in with ships full of aid. — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, "After Hurricane Dorian, Royal Caribbean plans to send cruises full of supplies to Bahamas," 4 Sep. 2019 The Last Days of Jack Sparks, Ghoster relies heavily on modern technology, and many of its references will swing toward the younger crowd. — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, "Ars To-Be-Read: Space operas, platypus papers, and more books to read this fall," 1 Sep. 2019 The score was 21-0 at halftime and Desert Mountain relied heavily on its ground game behind senior running back Bret Narveson (15 carries, 77 yards). — Danny Shapiro, azcentral, "Arizona high school football Week 2: Game results from around the Valley," 30 Aug. 2019 With the Golden Knights breaking two new QBs into the system, UCF might rely heavily upon RB Greg McCrae, who rolled up 1,182 rushing yards with a total of 11 touchdowns in 2018. — Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, "Florida A&M Rattlers at UCF Golden Knights odds, picks and best bets," 29 Aug. 2019 AltSarkar is a role-play government that relies heavily on satire to present a parallel universe, an alternative reality. — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, "A poll on Twitter has birthed an all-spoof alternative Indian government," 28 Aug. 2019 During Fernandez’s time with the club, Necaxa relied heavily on their wingers to score the lion’s share of goals. — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive.com, "Portland Timbers forward Brian Fernandez unlikely to move to the wing," 28 Aug. 2019 The project relies heavily on local sales tax funds, with nearly $3 billion from Santa Clara County’s measures A and B contributing to the project, along with another $375 million in toll funds under Regional Measure 3. — Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News, "Federal government readies to give BART’s San Jose extension first installment of funds," 28 Aug. 2019 This policy would fall most heavily on poor nations who can least afford costly environmental or labor upgrades. — Michael Tanner, National Review, "Trump’s Trade Critics Don’t Offer Better Options," 21 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'heavily.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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