Weighty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weighty \Weight"y\, a. [Compar. {Weightier}; superl.
     {Weightiest}.]
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     1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
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     2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince;
        important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry
        weighty reasons." --Shak.
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              Let me have your advice in a weighty affair.
                                                    --Swift.
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     3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. [R.] "Attend our weightier
        judgment." --Shak.
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     Syn: Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible;
          momentous; efficacious; impressive; cogent.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  weighty
       adj 1: having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load"; "a
              weighty package" [ant: {weightless}]
       2: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious
          thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision
          in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters
          of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the
          peace conference" [syn: {grave}, {grievous}, {heavy}]
       3: weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry;
          "weighty problems"
       4: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {obese},
           {rotund}]
       5: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling
          presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: {cogent}, {telling}]
       [also: {weightiest}, {weightier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  224 Moby Thesaurus words for "weighty":
     Gargantuan, absolute, adducible, admissible, amplitudinous,
     ascendant, astronomical, attestative, attestive, authentic,
     authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic,
     awe-inspiring, awesome, based on, big, binding, boundless, bulky,
     burdensome, certain, charismatic, charming, circumstantial,
     clothed with authority, cogent, colossal, commanding, competent,
     conclusive, consequential, considerable, consistent, controlling,
     convincing, corpulent, cosmic, cumbersome, cumbrous, cumulative,
     damning, decisive, decorous, demanding, demure, determinative,
     dignified, documentary, documented, dominant, duly constituted,
     earnest, effective, effectual, efficacious, elevated, eminent,
     empowered, enchanting, enormous, estimable, evidential,
     evidentiary, ex officio, ex parte, exacting, exhausting, exigent,
     extensive, eye-witness, factual, fat, fatal, fateful, final,
     firsthand, fleshy, formal, formidable, founded on, frowning,
     galactic, gigantic, good, governing, grand, grave, great, grievous,
     grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, grinding, gross, grounded on,
     harsh, hearsay, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hegemonic, hegemonistic,
     huge, immeasurable, immense, imperative, implicit, important,
     imposing, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, infinite,
     influential, inspiring, irrefutable, irresistible, just, king-size,
     large, lawful, leaden, leading, legal, legitimate, lofty, logical,
     long-faced, magnetic, majestic, mammoth, massive, massy, material,
     meaningful, mighty, momentous, monocratic, monster, monstrous,
     monumental, mountainous, moving, no-nonsense, noble, nuncupative,
     obese, official, onerous, oppressive, outsize, overburdensome,
     overgrown, overweight, overwhelming, personable, persuasive,
     ponderous, portentous, portly, potent, powerful, preeminent,
     prestigious, presumptive, probative, prodigious, prominent,
     puissant, ranking, reliable, reputable, ruling, sedate,
     self-consistent, senior, serious, severe, significant, sizable,
     sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, solid, somber, sound,
     spacious, staid, stately, stone-faced, stout, straight-faced,
     strong, stupendous, suasive, sublime, substantial, sufficient,
     suggestive, superincumbent, superior, supreme, sure, symptomatic,
     taxing, telling, thoughtful, titanic, totalitarian, tough,
     tremendous, tyrannous, unsmiling, valid, vast, voluminous, wearing,
     wearying, well-founded, well-grounded, winning