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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heavily \Heav"i*ly\, adverb [From 2d {Heavy}.]
1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. --The Century.
2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily. --Ex. xiv. 25.
Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? --Shak.
3. Greatly; intensely; as, heavily involved in a plot; heavily invested in real estate. [PJC]
4. In large quantity; as, it rained heavily. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
heavily
adverb
1: to a considerable degree; "he relied heavily on others' data" [syn: {to a great extent}]
2: in a heavy-footed manner; "he walked heavily up the three flights to his room"
3: with great force; "she hit her arm heavily against the wall"
4: in a manner designed for heavy duty; "a heavily constructed car"; "heavily armed"
5: slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands" [syn: {heavy}]
6: indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" [syn: {intemperately}, {hard}] [ant: {lightly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "heavily": apathetically, aridly, barrenly, bleakly, bloodlessly, burdensomely, close, closely, coldly, colorlessly, compactly, cumbersomely, densely, dismally, dormantly, draggily, drearily, drearisomely, dryly, dully, dustily, effetely, emptily, firmly, funereally, gloomily, gravely, grimly, heavy, hollowly, impassively, inactively, inanely, inertly, insipidly, jejunely, languidly, languorously, latently, leadenly, lifelessly, onerously, pallidly, passively, phlegmatically, ploddingly, pointlessly, ponderously, sadly, slowly, sluggishly, solemnly, solidly, somberly, sombrously, spiritlessly, stagnantly, statically, stodgily, stoically, stolidly, stuffily, superficially, tastelessly, tediously, thick, thickly, torpidly, uninterestingly, vapidly, weightily
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