heavy implies that something has greater density or thickness than the average of its kind or class.
a heavy child for his age
weighty suggests having actual and not just relative weight.
a load of weighty boxes
ponderous implies having great weight because of size and massiveness with resulting great inertia.
ponderous elephants in a circus parade
cumbrous and cumbersome imply heaviness and bulkiness that make for difficulty in grasping, moving, carrying, or manipulating.
wrestled with the cumbrous furniture
early cameras were cumbersome and inconvenient
Example Sentences
She grabbed a weighty book off the shelf. The film deals with some weighty issues. Those are weighty arguments in your favor. He was a weighty figure in the art world.
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