weighty
Americanadjective
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having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous.
a weighty bundle.
- Antonyms:
- light
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burdensome or troublesome.
the weightier cares of sovereignty.
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important or momentous.
weighty negotiations.
- Synonyms:
- consequential, grave, serious, significant
- Antonyms:
- unimportant, light
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having or exerting influence, power, etc.; influential.
a weighty merchant of Boston.
adjective
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having great weight
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important or momentous
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causing anxiety or worry
Synonym Usage
See heavy.
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Etymology
Origin of weighty
Explanation
Weighty things are either very heavy or extremely important and worrisome. Putting your weighty cat on a diet might be a weighty issue that nags at you. If your luggage is too weighty, you'll have to pay an extra fee at the airport. And if you've got a mind full of weighty problems, you won't be able to fall asleep on your long flight. Sometimes this adjective is also used to mean "influential," like the weighty influence your SAT scores might have on your chances of being accepted at a competitive college.
Vocabulary lists containing weighty
Example Sentences
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Weighty subjects too and the reason why “Gibbon” was initially envisioned as a more lighthearted palate cleanser.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2022
Weighty off-field concerns will be replaced by the relative hilarity of “sticky stuff” checks and analysis of what it means that National League teams now will use the designated hitter, too.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2022
Weighty terms like “identity,” “history,” “gender,” and “race” are often trotted out to discuss Simpson’s work—and often they have the effect of distancing us from the formal mysteries and atmospheric eeriness of the work.
From The New Yorker • May 14, 2019
Weighty and climactic, “Rite” often closes programs for a reason.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2018
Weighty sentences follow one another until the moral effect is reached, or the description fully turned.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
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