weighty
pronunciation
How to pronounce weighty in British English:
UK [ˈweɪti]
How to pronounce weighty in American English:
US [ˈweti]
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- Adjective:
- having relatively great weight; heavy
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
- excessively fat
- powerfully persuasive
Word Origin
- weighty (adj.)
- late 14c., "heavy;" late 15c., "important, serious, grave;" from weight (n.) + -y (2). Related: Weightiness.
Synonym
Example
- 1. He wants to shrink the weighty state subsidy that whitehall gives to northern ireland .
- 2. Even their likely gain of six senate seats is fairly weighty by historical standards .
- 3. Some philosophers manage to write about very deep and weighty matters in a prose that is crystal clear .
- 4. They are weighty affairs in every tine of theword .
- 5. Weighty powers have been devolved to scotland and wales .