weighty
18
5.3
- adjective
- /ˈweɪti/
- Formal
:
importante
- Tonight we're going to address the weighty topic of black holes.
- a weighty tome
- weighty issues
- weighty matters
But there are two weightier, more difficult objections.
- But there are two weightier, more difficult objections.
- Tonight we're going to address the weighty topic of black holes.
- And that was a weighty moment for me.
- We say important and distinguished and very weighty in terms of how they should be treated.
- But it yeah, it would, it'd be a weighty thing to have on your mind, wouldn't it?
- You just had that in his, in his demeanour and but what he would do is write in a weighty, grave way and that was too much.
- But nevertheless there is a weighty inheritance which will have to be dealt with in one way or another.
- So even though, you know, those weighty concepts were embedded in his prose, you never saw them.
Examples
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In the Greco-Roman world in which Jesus lived, family was a weightier matter.
Academic text (2002) -
Knowledge management has weighty implications for the productivity of labor in firms.
Academic text (2003) -
And that was a weighty moment for me.
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If the schools' failure was weighty, so, too, was their legacy.
Academic text (2002) -
We say important and distinguished and very weighty in terms of how they should be treated.
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I had no idea you pondered such weighty issues, Charles E.
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Their words conveyed the depth of their experience and its weighty effect on their lives.
Academic text (2006) -
But it is a subject worthy of serious reflection, for weightier reasons than the threat to teaching positions.
Academic text (2002) -
The value assigned by governments to collective security was not weighty enough to overcome claims of national self-interest.
Academic text (1993) -
Tonight we're going to address the weighty topic of black holes.
Synonyms
363
4.5
Causing strong sadness or a feeling of burden
181
4.2
Very serious and needing careful attention
Showing something important or having a strong effect
Antonyms
Compounds
How Serious
- Formal
46
7.0
- Formal
18
5.3
∞
1.0
- Specialized
92
4.9
112
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word weighty comes from the everyday word weight ('how heavy something is') and the ending -y meaning 'full of'. A helpful way to remember the sense 'serious' or 'important' is to think of an idea with real 'weight'—something heavy you must weigh before deciding.