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Synonyms for weighty
ˈweɪ tiweighty

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. weightyadjective

    having relatively great weight; heavy

    "a weighty load"; "a weighty package"

    Synonyms:
    heavy, corpulent, obese, grave, rotund, telling, grievous, cogent

    Antonyms:
    light, thin, dissuasive, lean, unimportant, weightless

  2. cogent, telling, weightyadjective

    powerfully persuasive

    "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"

    Synonyms:
    heavy, corpulent, obese, grave, revealing, telltale(a), rotund, impressive, telling, grievous, cogent

    Antonyms:
    weightless, thin, unimportant, light, lean, dissuasive

  3. grave, grievous, heavy, weightyadjective

    of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

    "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"

    Synonyms:
    heartrending, sullen, laborious, heavy, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, corpulent, sound, serious, gruelling, dense, grueling, wakeless, with child(p), threatening, solemn, grave, profound, backbreaking, severe, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, flagitious, grievous, monstrous, fleshy, atrocious, weighed down, hard, impenetrable, life-threatening, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, sedate, heartbreaking, sonorous, dangerous, arduous, operose, sober, rotund, heavy(p), big(a), labored, obese, laboured, punishing, cogent, telling, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

    Antonyms:
    unimportant, light, thin, lean, dissuasive, weightless

  4. weightyadjective

    weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry

    "weighty problems"

    Synonyms:
    heavy, corpulent, obese, grave, rotund, telling, grievous, cogent

    Antonyms:
    light, unimportant, lean, weightless, dissuasive, thin

  5. corpulent, obese, weighty, rotundadjective

    excessively fat

    "a weighty man"

    Synonyms:
    pear-shaped, heavy, corpulent, obese, round, rotund, orotund, grave, telling, grievous, cogent

    Antonyms:
    lean, weightless, unimportant, thin, dissuasive, light

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. weightyadjective

    Synonyms:
    HEAVY, ponderous, onerous

  2. weightyadjective

    Synonyms:
    important, influential, efficacious, forcible, momentous, grave, serious, of consequence

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. weightyadjective

    Synonyms:
    heavy, ponderous, massive, onerous, momentous, important, pregnant, serious

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "weighty":

    heavy, weight, onerous

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How to use weighty in a sentence?

  1. Morgan Ortagus:

    The United States and the DPRK [ North Korea ] will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of Earlier Saturday, these are weighty issues, and they require a strong commitment by both countries. United States has that commitment.

  2. Andersen Brower:

    When they wade into weighty policy issues, as Hillary Clinton did, it always breaks bad for them. When Barbara Bush held a baby suffering from AIDS, it sent an extremely powerful message at a time when some people were worried about catching AIDS simply by touching someone who had it, first ladies don't have to make a campaign of something, they just need to make sure the press is there to capture a moment. Barbara Bush knew how consequential that photo would become.

  3. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf:

    I take this action only after significant consideration and reflection, there is perhaps no more weighty a responsibility assigned to the governor than his or her role as the final check in the capital punishment process.

  4. Oscar W. Firkins:

    Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

  5. James Comey:

    It's an unusual case, an important case and it's a challenge for all of us to deal with some pretty weighty issues that really haven't been dealt with before.


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