What does "weighty" mean?
Weighty: Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
Additional senses
- 2.Rigorous; severe; afflictive. [R.] "Attend our weightier judgment." Shak. WEIL'S DISEASE Weil's disease. (Med.) An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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