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weighty decision

weighty decision

1 4.6
An important choice that has serious results
  • noun
  • /ˈweɪti dɪˈsɪʒən/
  • Formal
translation icon : decisión importante
  • Making a weighty decision about her child's future education filled her with anxiety and uncertainty.
  • make a weighty decision

Examples

  • The committee faced a weighty decision yesterday.

  • The president's weighty decision regarding foreign policy altered the course of history.

  • After much deliberation, the board reached a weighty decision about merging the two companies.

  • Choosing a major in college can feel like a weighty decision for many students.

  • We must make a weighty decision soon!

  • The board was faced with a weighty decision regarding the merger, knowing it could affect hundreds of employees.

  • He understood that choosing to relocate for the job was a weighty decision that would change his family's life.

Synonyms

big decision
vsweighty decision
50 2.2

An important choice that can change your life

emphasizes the serious consequences or gravity of that choice

Antonyms

insignificant
104 4.1

Not important or too small to matter

How Serious

momentous
  • Formal
46 7.0
weighty decision
  • Formal
1 4.6
minor
600 2.4

Surface Forms

weighty decision singular
weighty decisions plural

Morphology

weighty + decision

This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'weighty' means serious or important and thus directly modifies 'decision' to yield 'a serious/important choice.' The meaning follows regular semantic composition and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The phrase weighty decision comes from the image of lifting something very heavy: weighty means 'heavy' and decision is a choice. That's why it means 'a choice that matters a lot'.