Top-heavy

Definition: Top-heavy

Top-heavy

Adjective

1. Unstable by being overloaded at the top.

Synonyms within Context: Top-heavy

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Danger	Tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless; in a bad way; reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the balance; nodding to its fall; (destruction). threatening; ominous, illomened; alarming; (fear); explosive.
Drunkenness	Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk.
Inequality	Adjective: unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced; top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Usage Frequency: Top-heavy

"Top-heavy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Top-heavy" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: Top-heavy

Language		Translations for "top-heavy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		高级人员过多. (various references)

Hungarian		rossz egyensúlyú, pityókás (have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, overshot, top heavy), italos (have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, tapster), felülterhes, felül túlságosan nehéz, fejnehéz (top heavy). (various references)

Korean		두한. (various references)

Manx		kione-hrome. (various references)

Pig Latin		op-heavytay

Portuguese		desequilibrado (off-balance, touched, unbalanced, wacky). (various references)

Welsh		pendrwm (drowsy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Top-heavy

Misspellings
	"Top-heavy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: topheavy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Top-heavy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-p-t-v-y"
	-2 letters: teapoy.
	-3 letters: atopy, heavy, ovate, peaty, peavy, tepoy, tophe.
	-4 letters: ahoy, atop, eath, epha, haet, hate, have, heap, heat, hope, hove, hoya, hype, hypo, hyte, oath, opah, pate, path, paty, pave, peat, phat, phot, poet, tape, tepa, thae, they, toea, tope, toph, type, typo, veto, vote, yeah.
	-5 letters: ape, apt, ate, ave, avo, aye.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-p-t-v-y"
	+4 letters: psychoactive.
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