Weighty \Weight"y\, a. [Compar. Weightier; superl.
Weightiest.]
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1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
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2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince;
important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry
weighty reasons." --Shak.
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Let me have your advice in a weighty affair.
--Swift.
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3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. [R.] "Attend our weightier
judgment." --Shak.
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Syn: Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible;
momentous; efficacious; impressive; cogent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weighty
adj 1: having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load"; "a
weighty package" [ant: weightless]
2: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious
thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision
in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters
of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the
peace conference" [syn: grave, grievous, heavy]
3: weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry;
"weighty problems"
4: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese,
rotund]
5: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling
presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: cogent, telling]
[also: weightiest, weightier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
224 Moby Thesaurus words for "weighty":
Gargantuan, absolute, adducible, admissible, amplitudinous,
ascendant, astronomical, attestative, attestive, authentic,
authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic,
awe-inspiring, awesome, based on, big, binding, boundless, bulky,
burdensome, certain, charismatic, charming, circumstantial,
clothed with authority, cogent, colossal, commanding, competent,
conclusive, consequential, considerable, consistent, controlling,
convincing, corpulent, cosmic, cumbersome, cumbrous, cumulative,
damning, decisive, decorous, demanding, demure, determinative,
dignified, documentary, documented, dominant, duly constituted,
earnest, effective, effectual, efficacious, elevated, eminent,
empowered, enchanting, enormous, estimable, evidential,
evidentiary, ex officio, ex parte, exacting, exhausting, exigent,
extensive, eye-witness, factual, fat, fatal, fateful, final,
firsthand, fleshy, formal, formidable, founded on, frowning,
galactic, gigantic, good, governing, grand, grave, great, grievous,
grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, grinding, gross, grounded on,
harsh, hearsay, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hegemonic, hegemonistic,
huge, immeasurable, immense, imperative, implicit, important,
imposing, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, infinite,
influential, inspiring, irrefutable, irresistible, just, king-size,
large, lawful, leaden, leading, legal, legitimate, lofty, logical,
long-faced, magnetic, majestic, mammoth, massive, massy, material,
meaningful, mighty, momentous, monocratic, monster, monstrous,
monumental, mountainous, moving, no-nonsense, noble, nuncupative,
obese, official, onerous, oppressive, outsize, overburdensome,
overgrown, overweight, overwhelming, personable, persuasive,
ponderous, portentous, portly, potent, powerful, preeminent,
prestigious, presumptive, probative, prodigious, prominent,
puissant, ranking, reliable, reputable, ruling, sedate,
self-consistent, senior, serious, severe, significant, sizable,
sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, solid, somber, sound,
spacious, staid, stately, stone-faced, stout, straight-faced,
strong, stupendous, suasive, sublime, substantial, sufficient,
suggestive, superincumbent, superior, supreme, sure, symptomatic,
taxing, telling, thoughtful, titanic, totalitarian, tough,
tremendous, tyrannous, unsmiling, valid, vast, voluminous, wearing,
wearying, well-founded, well-grounded, winning
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