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WEIGHTY
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Irregular inflected forms: weightier , weightiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively fat
Example:
a weighty man
Synonyms:
corpulent; obese; rotund; weighty
Classified under:
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Derivation:
weightiness (the property of being comparatively great in weight)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having relatively great weight; heavy
Example:
a weighty package
Classified under:
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 3
Meaning:
Weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
Example:
weighty problems
Classified under:
Adjectives
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 4
Meaning:
Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
Example:
the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
Synonyms:
grave; grievous; heavy; weighty
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
important; of import (of great significance or value)
Derivation:
weight; weightiness (the relative importance granted to something)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Powerfully persuasive
Example:
a weighty argument
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
persuasive (intended or having the power to induce action or belief)
Derivation:
weightiness (the relative importance granted to something)
Context examples:
But, his joy received a sudden check; for within five minutes, he returned in the custody of a sheriff “s officer, informing us, in a flood of tears, that all was lost. We, being quite prepared for this event, which was of course a proceeding of Uriah Heep's, soon paid the money; and in five minutes more Mr. Micawber was seated at the table, filling up the stamps with an expression of perfect joy, which only that congenial employment, or the making of punch, could impart in full completeness to his shining face. To see him at work on the stamps, with the relish of an artist, touching them like pictures, looking at them sideways, taking weighty notes of dates and amounts in his pocket-book, and contemplating them when finished, with a high sense of their precious value, was a sight indeed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now follow me, and take it not to heart if he be a little short in his speech, for indeed his mind is full of many very weighty concerns.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I have a most particular and weighty reason for wishing to go,” said the sturdy knight.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is scarce likely, he said, that Sir Claude Latour should send me all the way across seas with nought more weighty than a psalm-verse.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
