weighty
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˈweɪti/
- Offensive
- The newborn babe is certainly weighty.
Examples
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But his body is weighty, and his breath grows short.
Fiction book (1992) -
Five weighty women, dressed in church robes, and the preacher walk up Gideon's steps.
Fiction book (1990) -
This is a love story, threadbare and used up, yet sometimes fat, weighty, stretched out of shape.
Fiction book (1999) -
A key rattled in the lock, and a weighty middle-aged man backed in.
Fiction book (2000) -
Lahaye's wines are intense without being weighty, showing a vinous, concentrated character that clearly
Blog text (31) -
Darkness in Isabel's head and ice in her heart; her body weighty as stones, her clothes rubbing like sackcloth.
Fiction book (1998) -
As the least weighty and constricting of the philosophies, skepticism was for Montaigne the most cheerful.
Academic text (1991) -
The weighty man struggled to climb the stairs without becoming out of breath.
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After indulging in rich desserts for weeks, he noticed his clothes fitting a bit more weighty than before.
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She felt weighty after the holiday season, prompting her to start a workout plan.
Synonyms
756
1.0
A thing that has a lot of weight and is hard to lift
142
2.2
Weighing more than is healthy for a person's height
96
3.8
Having too much body fat that can cause health problems
14
3.7
Being large and heavy in size or build
11
3.5
A person with a large, solid body and wide shoulders
5
5.8
Having a round, plump shape like a ball
3
7.3
A person who is very fat with a large, heavy body
1
7.5
Being large and heavy like a solid block
1
4.1
A person or animal that has a wide, heavy body
Antonyms
Compounds
How Overweight
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word weighty comes from weight ('how heavy something is') and the ending -y meaning 'full of', so it can describe a person who is 'heavy' or 'carrying extra weight'.