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BNC: 13806 COCA: 13923
weightier; weightiest
1
a
: of much importance or consequence : momentous
a weighty problem
b
: solemn
2
a
: weighing a considerable amount
b
: heavy in proportion to its bulk
weighty metal
3
: powerful, telling
weighty arguments
weightily adverb
weightiness noun

Synonyms

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heavy, weighty, ponderous, cumbrous, cumbersome mean having great weight.

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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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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The first known use of weighty was in the 15th century

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