top-heavy
adjective
having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
top-heaviness
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a word derived from
top-heavy.
Example Sentences
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This top-heaviness is very much in evidence in the stock market, where many companies are barely profitable and many others are losing money.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2025
A big reason for the drop in the stock market’s top-heaviness is the dramatic fall for the Big Tech stocks that had come to dominate it.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
The NBA’s top-heaviness can be problematic during the marathon regular season, but Cavaliers v Warriors III is a delicious payoff eight months in the making.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2017
All four No. 1 seeds advancing to the Final Four two years ago was a snoozer to me; it spoke to a certain top-heaviness in college basketball.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 15, 2010
Care should be taken that racial education be not one-sided for lack of adaptation to personal fitness, nor unwieldy through sheer top-heaviness.
From Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements by Booker T. Washington
