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WEIGHTY (weightier, weightiest)
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, weightiest Dictionary entry overview: What does weighty mean?
• WEIGHTY (adjective)
The adjective WEIGHTY has 5 senses:
1. having relatively great weight; heavy
2. powerfully persuasive
3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
4. weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
5. excessively fat
Familiarity information: WEIGHTY used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: weightiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having relatively great weight; heavy
Context example:
a weighty package
Antonym:
weightless (having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light)
Derivation:
weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)
weightiness (the property of being comparatively great in weight)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Powerfully persuasive
Synonyms:
Context example:
a weighty argument
Similar:
persuasive (intended or having the power to induce action or belief)
Derivation:
weightiness (the relative importance granted to something)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
Synonyms:
grave; grievous; heavy; weighty
Context example:
the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
Similar:
important; of import (of great significance or value)
Derivation:
weight; weightiness (the relative importance granted to something)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
Context example:
weighty problems
Similar:
heavy (marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness)
Derivation:
weight (an oppressive feeling of heavy force)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Excessively fat
Synonyms:
corpulent; obese; rotund; weighty
Context example:
a weighty man
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Derivation:
weightiness (the property of being comparatively great in weight)
Context examples
“Let them be supplied with all that is heavy and weighty in the ship,” said Sir Nigel.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You won’t likely have the weighty problems you had with Saturn when this planet toured Capricorn in your (eighth) money house.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“I have de goot news, Sir Charles,” said he, sinking his voice as one who speaks of weighty measures.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The gravity of both their faces foretold some weighty quest.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The lawyer took that rude but weighty instrument into his hand, and balanced it.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
With respect to that other, more weighty accusation, of having injured Mr. Wickham, I can only refute it by laying before you the whole of his connection with my family.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But there is still indeed a more weighty reason, why the kings of this country have been always averse from executing so terrible an action, unless upon the utmost necessity.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
With a lightened heart, though with a profound sense of the weighty importance of my task, I devoted the whole afternoon to the composition of the draft of this letter; for which great purpose, Agnes relinquished her desk to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They went and announced him to the king, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
What hast thou to say, brother John, upon these weighty things which are urged against you?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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