WEIGHTY (weightier, weightiest)
Dictionary entry overview: What does weighty mean?
• WEIGHTY (adjective)
The adjective WEIGHTY has 5 senses:
1. having relatively great weight; heavy
2. powerfully persuasive
3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
4. weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
5. excessively fat
Familiarity information: WEIGHTY used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• WEIGHTY (adjective)
Meaning:
Having relatively great weight; heavy
Context examples:
a weighty load / a weighty package
Antonym:
weightless (having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light)
Meaning:
Powerfully persuasive
Synonyms:
cogent; telling; weighty
Context examples:
a cogent argument / a telling presentation / a weighty argument
Similar:
persuasive (tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief)
Meaning:
Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
Synonyms:
weighty; grievous; grave; heavy
Context examples:
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
Similar:
important; of import (of great significance or value)
Meaning:
Weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
Context example:
weighty problems
Similar:
heavy (marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness)
Meaning:
Excessively fat
Synonyms:
corpulent; obese; rotund; weighty
Context example:
a weighty man
Similar:
fat (having much flesh (especially fat))
