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weighty (-ē)

adjective weightier weight′i·er, weightiest weight′i·est

  1. having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
  2. burdensome; oppressive weighty responsibilities
  3. of great significance or moment; serious weighty matters of state
  4. of great influence, power, importance, etc.

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weighty Usage Examples

Preposition: as

  • word: He will pass judgments and render verdicts, and what he says will be as weighty as the words of Ninjiczida and Dumuzid.

Modifies a noun

  • tome: I suspect far more people became better informed from the site visit than any weighty tome.

Modifying Another Word

  • sufficiently: Such tentative evidence is not yet sufficiently weighty to change the author's convictions that the universe must be finite in all respects.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: Guiding Optimus Prime through acres of foliage whilst launching attacks on enemy units feels magnificently weighty.
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weighty quotes

Time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weightyand solid.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

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