pesadas

Pesadas is the feminine plural form of the Spanish adjective pesado, meaning heavy or burdensome. In everyday usage, pesadas describes feminine nouns or groups of nouns that are physically heavy or figuratively demanding, such as tareas pesadas (heavy tasks) or cargas pesadas (heavy loads). The term can also describe weather or days as mentally or emotionally exhausting, for example, un día pesado or días pesados.

As a noun, pesadas is less common but appears in some dialects to refer to heavy objects or burdens, and in informal speech it can describe a person who is tedious or bothersome, as in una pesada or esa persona es una pesada. In sports and weight categories, the related expression peso pesado (heavyweight) is widely used.

Etymology derives pesadez and pesade from the same root as peso, weight, and pesar, the verb to weigh or to be burdensome. The distinction between physical heaviness and figurative heaviness is a key aspect of its usage.

Usage notes: pesadas often convey a sense of difficulty or strain, whether physical, mental, or situational. It is common in Latin American Spanish and can carry a slightly informal or colloquial tone, especially when referring to people.

See also: pesado, peso, pesadez, peso pesado.