heavy swell

1. 1.

   a broad and deep undulation of the ocean

   Synonymsground swell

   Broaderswell

Questions about heavy swell

What does heavy swell mean?

heavy swell means "a broad and deep undulation of the ocean".

What is another word for heavy swell?

Close synonyms include ground swell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heavy swell a common word?

heavy swell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.