top-heavyTranslate top-heavy | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of top-heavy adjective 1disproportionately heavy at the top so as to be in danger of toppling: double-decker carriages proved to be unsafe and top-heavy 2(of an organization) having a disproportionately large number of senior administrative staff: a top-heavy bureaucracyDerivatives top-heavily adverb top-heaviness noun top-heavy in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of top-heavy in the US English dictionary