Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having considerable weight; heavy. synonym: heavy.
- adjective Burdensome; oppressive: synonym: burdensome.
- adjective Of great consequence; serious or momentous.
- adjective Having great power or influence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous.
- Burdensome; hard to bear.
- Important; serious; momentous; grave.
- Adapted to affect the judgment or to convince; forcible; cogent.
- Grave or serious in aspect or purport.
- Authoritative; influential; important.
- Severe; rigorous; afflictive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having weight; heavy; ponderous.
- adjective Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
- adjective rare Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having weight;
heavy ;ponderous ; as, a weighty body. - adjective Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince;
important ; forcible; serious; momentous. - adjective Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having relatively great weight; heavy
- adjective of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- adjective excessively fat
- adjective powerfully persuasive
- adjective weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
Etymologies
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Examples
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The dancer has also been cast in a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, which makes its premiere May 24, that she described as a weighty, funereal pas de deux with principle Marcelo Gomes.
A Ballet Company's Summer of Youth Pia Catton 2011
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I felt this lent the film a certain weighty irony; something that would have been lost had a human being taken the part.
Martian Chronicle Peter Ashley 2007
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Christ Jesus, who broaches false doctrines and propagates them to the corrupting of the faith in weighty and momentous points, and breaks the peace of the church about them, after due means used to reclaim him, must be rejected.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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First, my book group was reading what can only be described as a weighty tome, which took a lot of time to get through, even if it was enjoyable.
Blogger sucked my brain Cazzab 2008
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First, my book group was reading what can only be described as a weighty tome, which took a lot of time to get through, even if it was enjoyable.
Archive 2008-01-01 Cazzab 2008
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It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard
Waverley 2004
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After his assassination, finally, some recalled a weighty incident in connection with his gilded chair, -- that the servant, as
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Impossible not to recall the weighty judgment of one of Stevenson's characters upon the
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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That soul cannot perish, nor that concern fall to the ground, though ever so weighty, that is by faith hung upon Christ.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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These issues are identified as weighty obstacles for rigid economic growth.
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