weighty
weighty is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- analytical
- arroba
- avoirdupois
- baby
- balance
- ballast
- beam
- burden
- burdensome
- burthen
- carat
- centigram
- counterpoise
- cumber
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- drachma
- grain
- gram
- gravitate
- gravitation
- gravity
- heaviness
- heavy
- hundredweight
- incumbent
- kilogram
- lead
- load
- long
- lump
- lumpish
- lumpy
- mass
- massive
- metric
- milligram
- millstone
- mountain
- ounce
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is weighty.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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