weighty
Adjective
- Having considerable weight, importance, or influence.
- having relatively great weight; heavy
- "a weighty load"
- "a weighty package"
Adjective Satellite
- powerfully persuasive
- "a weighty argument"
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
- weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
- "weighty problems"
- excessively fat
- "a weighty man"
Adj
- Having a lot of weight; heavy.
- Important; serious; not trivial or petty.
- Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
Examples
- a weighty argument
- His final Scrabble play was a weighty one, securing a decisive victory.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English weighti, weghti, wighti, equivalent to weight + -y.
Cognate with Scots weichty, wechty, wichty, Saterland Frisian wichtich, West Frisian wichtich, Dutch wichtig, gewichtig, German wichtig, Danish vigtig, Swedish viktig.
Compare typologically Russian ве́ский (véskij), весо́мый (vesómyj) (< вес (ves)). Also compare the same meaning development from cognate (by borrowing) Polish waga (< ... < Proto-Germanic *wēgō): ważny (whence Russian ва́жный (vážnyj)).
Synonyms
cogent, corpulent, grave, grievous, heavy, obese, rotund, telling, austere, demure, earnest, lack-laughter, sad, sage, saturnine, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, solemncholy, somber, sombre, staid, stern, sweer, thoughtful, weightsome, weighty
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 17
weighty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordweighty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
weighty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary