Weighty
['weɪtɪ] or ['weti]
Definition
(adj.) having relatively great weight; heavy; 'a weighty load'; 'a weighty package' .
(adj.) weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; 'weighty problems' .
Editor: Randolph--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
(superl.) Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
(superl.) Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
Inputed by Bruno
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Heavy (intrinsically), ponderous, onerous.[2]. Important, influential, efficacious, forcible, momentous, grave, serious, of consequence.
Editor: Michel
Examples
- All buttoned-up men are weighty. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- United with that fatal circumstance, the body of proof was too weighty for Rebecca's youth, though combined with the most exquisite beauty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is here that directors' meetings are sometimes held, and also where weighty matters are often discussed by Edison at conference with his closer associates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thoughtful Mr. Bucket is, as a man may be with weighty work to do, but composed, sure, confident. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I can imagine that the one may have weighty reasons, which may and ought to make her overlook any seeming Impropriety in her conduct. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When did thy master hear of a Norman baron unbuckling his purse to relieve a churchman, whose bags are ten times as weighty as ours? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the house Professor Porter and Mr. Philander were immersed in an absorbing discussion of some weighty scientific problem. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But Mr Tite Barnacle was a buttoned-up man, and consequently a weighty one. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Serious, grave, weighty secrets. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was these weighty considerations which made him think too that the marriage should take place as quickly as possible. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the library, in spite of weightier presences, Lawrence Lefferts predominated. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Diametrically opposite to the chalk mark a small hole is punched into the ball to indicate the weightiest point. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The weightiest of men had said to projectors, 'Now, what name have you got? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Here he comes, with his lady on his arm--the most splendid and the weightiest woman in Yorkshire--Mrs. Sweeting, formerly Miss Dora Sykes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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