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adjective

Weighty adj. (compar. weightier; superl. weightiest)

Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.

Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." "Let me have your advice in a weighty affair."

Rigorous; severe; afflictive. (R.) "Attend our weightier judgment."

Synonyms: Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous; efficacious; impressive; cogent.

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Etymology of 'Weighty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Weighty" Quotes from Famous Books

... mind thus makes its entrance into philosophy. And once in, it is hard to trace its lawful bounds. Not only does the human instinct for happiness, bent on self-protection by ignoring, keep working in its favor, but higher inner ideals have weighty words to say. The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... to the startling novelty of the idea. He was fond of his wife as a man should be—that is, generously. But a weighty objection presented itself to his mind, ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

... Colonel," said his friend to me, whereupon I partook of the drink, not wishing to offend him. Decidedly he was not vogue. His hat was remarkable, being of a black felt with high crown and a wide and flopping brim. Across his waistcoat was a watch-chain of heavy links, with a weighty charm consisting of a sculptured gold horse in full gallop. That sort of thing would never ...

— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... and Mrs. Sand would have been encouraged in any scheme of practical utility by the lines that came about his mouth. A brother in finance of some astuteness, who saw him scramble into his gharry, divined that with regard to a weighty matter in jute mill shares pending, Lindsay had decided upon a coup, and made his arrangements accordingly. He also went upon his way with a fresh impression of Lindsay's undeniable good looks, as sometimes in a coin new from the mint one is struck with the beauty ...

— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

... brick or other substances and stakes, to support them in their inclining position, being careful to place all the beans on the under sides of the bricks or other matters. The mice in eating the beans, in such cases, will also destroy the pack-thread, and by such means disengage the brick or other weighty body, which by falling on them readily destroys them. Mice are always best got rid of by some sort of simple open traps ...

— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

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