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overheavy

  • a word derived from heavy.
    heavy
    adjective
    of great weight; hard to lift or carry.

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Making space for a third row of seats often throws off the upright stance and two-box proportions that characterize SUV designs, leaving a lot of them looking awkwardly elongated, slab-sided or overheavy at the stern.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

Probably at times it was a little overheavy on Oxbridge.

From Slate Mar. 21, 2017

"Sir John Johnson is a mild, slow man, somewhat sluggish and overheavy, moderate in speech, almost cold, perhaps, yet a perfectly gallant officer."

From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I have had overheavy grapples dragged from my hand and barely escaped following the lost instrument.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe

"It will be the better if you stretch his limbs, for he grows overheavy," said the knight.

From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle