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
Related Words
See heavy.
Other Word Forms
- unweighty adjective
- weightily adverb
- weightiness noun
Etymology
Origin of weighty
Example Sentences
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Yet despite the strong ratings of these audition programmes, some critics question if teenagers and young hopefuls can do justice to a genre that is so emotionally weighty.
From BBC
A couple of the disputes are a bit weightier than a question of whether someone’s yard goes to here . . . or to here.
She’s only in the movie for about half an hour, and though her character drives the action and ends the movie in spectacular fashion, that wasn’t enough in a category flush with weightier work.
From Los Angeles Times
"Woah! That's heading right for us!" an audience member can be heard saying on a YouTube video of the incident on Tuesday as the weighty object bounces off its track.
From Barron's
The particular choice of pattern or cartoon character for that first plate is a decision that feels weighty but pleasurable.
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