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unheavy

unheavy

6.1
Light and easy to carry
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈhɛvi/
  • Archaic
translation icon : ligero
  • The unheavy backpack made the hike much more enjoyable.

Examples

  • These unheavy books are perfect for young readers to carry.

  • He was glad to find an unheavy suitcase for his travels.

  • What a big stone that was, yet unheavy; without trying, she could lift it with the bent tip of her nail.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

light
vsunheavy
405 1.0

Not heavy and easy to carry

focuses only on weight and ease of lifting rather than thinness
lightweight
vsunheavy
36 2.8

Weighing less than other items of the same type

states an absolute lack of heaviness rather than a relative comparison
light and airy
vsunheavy
2 3.4

Clothes and rooms that are not heavy or tight and feel fresh and open

applies to weight in general not only to clothes or rooms

Antonyms

heavy
812 1.0

A thing that has a lot of weight and is hard to lift

weighty
2 4.1

Heavy and difficult to lift

How Heavy

massive
236 3.1
heavy
812 1.0
unheavy
  • Archaic
6.1
light
405 1.0
weightless
17 5.3

Surface Forms

unheavy positive

Morphology

unheavy = heavy (transparent) = un + heavy

Productive negation 'un-' applied to the adjective 'heavy' yields the straightforward opposite meaning 'not heavy'.

Etymology

Unheavy is made from the part un- ('not') and the word heavy, so it literally means 'not heavy', or light in weight and easy to lift or carry.