weighty
/ˈweɪti
/adjective (weightier, weightiest)
1Weighing a great deal; heavy: a weighty tome...
- With increasingly weighty school bags and heavy workload after school, very little free time is left for the kids to enjoy their childhoods.
- There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
- Creating a massive weighty object that not only flies, but hovers and takes off vertically is an amazing innovation, a marvel of modern engineering.
Synonyms
heavy, massive, thick, bulky, hefty, cumbersome, clumsy, ponderous, overweight
1.1Of great seriousness and importance: he threw off all weighty considerations of state...
- We commit to continuing to publish the serious scoops, the weighty investigative pieces and the incisive political analysis.
- There are some hefty themes for what proves to be a weighty, worthy, serious-minded film.
- There's nothing serious or weighty about any of this.
Synonyms
important, of great import/importance, significant, of significance, momentous, of moment, consequential, of consequence, far-reaching, key, major, vital, critical, crucial, life-and-death, high-priority, decisive, serious, grave, solemn;
no joke, no laughing matter
burdensome, onerous, heavy, oppressive, stressful, taxing, troublesome, worrisome, vexatious
1.2Having a great deal of influence on events or decisions: the evidence for proprietorial interference has become even more weighty...
- Prosperity and wealth can have a weighty influence.
- It has been found that the smoking behaviours of best friends and peers have a weighty influence on adolescent smoking habits.
- Of course, classification, region, and variety of grape are all weighty influences.
Synonyms
compelling, cogent, strong, forceful, powerful, potent, convincing, plausible, effective, efficacious, effectual, sound, valid, well founded, telling;
impressive, persuasive, influential, authoritative
Derivatives
weightily
/ adverb ...- The performance is weightily beautiful, even though it can't disguise the fact that this is essentially a piano solo with violin and cello accompaniment.
- By resisting the temptation to be weightily profound, the story succeeds in telling useful truths with a touch of levity.
- She plucks two huge medallions from her pocket that dangle weightily from rainbow-coloured tapes.
weightiness
/ noun ...- Perhaps it's because of the deluge of words, perhaps it's the weightiness of the subject, but one doesn't actually become involved emotionally.
- He has insight, dept and has a great spiritual weightiness.
- The design does its best to give a semblance of weightiness to something no bigger than an essay.
Rhymes
- well-printed
- well-prized
- well-produced
- well-proportionated
- well proportioned
- well-proved
- well-proven
- well-provendered
- well-provided
- well-provided-for
- well-publicized
- well qualified
- well-quartered
- well-raised
- well-ranged
- well read
- well-reared
- well-reasoned
- well-received
- well-recorded
- well-reeve
- well-refined
- well-reformed
- well-regulated
- well-remembered