Weighty

Definitions: Weighty

Weighty

Adjective

1. Having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load"; "a weighty package".

2. 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".

3. Weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems".

4. Excessively fat; "a weighty man".

5. Powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument".

Date "weighty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Weighty \Weight"y\, adjective. [Comparative Weightier; superlative Weightiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Weighty

Synonyms: cogent (adj), corpulent (adj), grave (adj), grievous (adj), heavy (adj), obese (adj), rotund (adj), telling (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: weightless (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Gravity	Adjective: weighty; weighing. Verb: heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.
Importance	Adjective: important; of importance; Noun: momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty; (influential); of note; (repute); notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable; worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring, eventful.
Influence	Adjective: influential, effective; important; weighty; prevailing; Verb: prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Weighty

English words defined with "weighty": cogent, corpulent ♦ Forcible entry and detainer ♦ grave, grave accent, grievous ♦ heavy ♦ Material evidence, mechanistically ♦ obese ♦ Pragmatic sanction, Prizing ♦ rotund ♦ Solid square ♦ telling ♦ weightily. (references)

Specialty definitions using "weighty": Morning. (references)

Etymologies containing "weighty": Gravamen. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Remember our talk on the bridge -- the weighty one, death and destruction? (The Enemy Below; writing credit: Wendell Mayes; D.A. Rayner)
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Domain	Title
Books	America by the Numbers: Facts and Figures from the Weighty to the Way-Out (reference) Dieting and Other Weighty Issues: A Girl Code Book (reference) The alternative Mandela album : a lighter look at some weighty events (reference) The Weighty Word Book (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sudden Breaking Up Of A Consultation. : Weighty Arguments on both sides! When Doctors disagree, Who shall Decide. / CJG.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Author	Quotation
Bacon	Fame, if like a river, beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon	Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Napoleon Bonaparte	Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The weighty load of taxes and duties that the sector is thus obliged to shoulder, effectively stunt the Italian market�s growth prospects in comparison with its cross-border counterparts. (references)
		Launched in the 1960s, this system was not perfect- it was only open from the autumn to the spring because of lack of funding and frequently required weighty co-payments- but it provided near universal, adequate healthcare to the countryside population. (references)
Economic History	Oman	Royal Dutch Shell continues to enjoy weighty influence in state petroleum policy, and is the largest principal private shareholder in the state-controlled national petroleum exploration and production company, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), and in Oman Liquefied Natural Gas (OLNG). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	There are weighty considerations in the location of a new building for that Department in favor of placing it near the other executive buildings.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Weighty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.45% of the time. "Weighty" is used about 182 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.45%	181	22,953
Noun (proper)	0.55%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	182	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "weighty".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Berea	N/A	Biblical	Weighty
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Language		Translations for "weighty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		serioz (bad, crying, deep, demure, dress, earnest, grave, heavy, nasty, reliable, serious, solemn), me influencë, i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless), i pjekur (baked, burnt, full blown, full grown, mature, mellow, ripe), bindëse. (various references)

Arabic		‏وجيه (faced, facet, notable, privileged, reputed, substantial, worthy), ‏عظيم الشأن (bigwig), ‏ذو نفوذ (influential), ‏ذو تأثير, ‏خطير (acute, critical, dangerous, eventful, grave, grievous, hazardous, heavy, important, irresistible, momentous, redoubtable, risky, risque, serious, severe, significant, ticklish, unsafe), ‏ثقيل (boring, cumbersome, dully, heaver, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, lumbering, massive, oppressive, ponderous, stodgy, uninteresting, unwieldy). (various references)

Bulgarian		убедителен (convincing, demonstrative, eloquent, evidential, fair-spoken, forcible, persuasive, potent, seductive, solid, suasive, telling, vigorous), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill), важен (consequential, dignified, fatal, grave, importable, important, magisterial, major, material, mighty, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line), влиятелен (influential, potent), обременяващ, авторитетен (authoritative, magisterial, magistral, potent), добре обмислен (circumspect, mature, measured, well thought out, well-judged). (various references)

Chinese		重 (heavy, hefty). (various references)

Czech		závažný (grand, grave, grievous, important, major, momentous, of great moment, relevant, satisfactory, valid), tìžký (bad, chunky, dangerous, difficult, grave, grievous, hard, heady, heavy, labored, laboured, man-sized, ponderous, severe, stodgy, thick, uphill), pádný (cogent, compelling, convincing, damning, hefty, pointed, potent, satisfactory, strong, valid). (various references)

Dutch		zwaarwichtig (important, serious). (various references)

Esperanto		multpeza. (various references)

Farsi		پربار, موثر (Drastic, Effective, Efficacious, Impressive, Live, Operative, Pathetic, Pithy, Pivotal, Sensational, Valid), وزین (Heavy, Ponderous), سنگین (Burdensome, Cumbersome, Demure, Earnest, Grave, Heavy, Hefty, Laden, Lumpy, Onerous, Ponderous, Sober, Staid, Stodgy, Unwieldy), سنجیده , بانفوذ. (various references)

Finnish		raskas (heavy, ponderous), painava (heavy, momentous, pressing). (various references)

French		pesant (weighing), notable, lourd, important, grave. (various references)

German		schwer (bad, badly, big, burdensome, critically, deeply, difficult, full, grave, gravely, grievous, hard, heavenly, heavily, heavy, hefty, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, lumbering, onerous, powerful, rich, serious, seriously, severe, slow, solid, sorely, strong, tough), gewichtig (grave, heavy, hefty, influential, portentous, weightily). (various references)

Greek		βαρύσ (beefy, cumbrous, heavy, hefty, labored, laboured, leaden, logy, lumpish, massive, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, saturnine, stodgy, waterlogged), βαρυσήμαντοσ (important, meaningful, momentous, significant). (various references)

Hebrew		כבד משקל (heavyweight, ponderous), כבד (burdensome, difficult, dull, hard, heavy, leaden, massive), רב חשיבות (all important, momentous). (various references)

Hungarian		súlyos (crass, cumbersome, cumbrous, grievous, heavy, heavy weight, massive, massy, onerous, oppressive, ponderous, serious). (various references)

Italian		pesante (burdensome, difficult, dull, grave, hard, heavy, inconvenient, lumpy, muggy, ponderous, serious, slow, stodgy, trying, weightily). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		重大 (grave, important, serious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じゅうだい (grave, important, serious, successive generations, teenage, the teens, the tenth generation). (various references)

Manx		trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, with child). (various references)

Pig Latin		eightyway

Portuguese		significativo (denotative, distinguish, meaning, meaningless, purposeful, significant, significative), pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, drabbet, elephantine, gloomy forecast, gross, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, loin, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, massy, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plop, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stodgy, stringent, tubby, unwieldy), influente (important, influent, influential), importante (big, capital, distinguish, golden, grand, grave, great, high, important, keynote, leading, momentous, necessary, ponderous, purposeful, relevant, serious, significant, solemn, substantial), convincente (closing, cogent, conclusive, convincing, demonstrative, forceless, forcible, persuasiveness, potent, silver, straitlaced, stringent, tenable, two-fisted, valid). (various references)

Romanian		valoros (distinguished, important, precious, talented, useful, valuable), serios (appreciable, demure, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, gravely, grievously, important, in earnest, in good earnest, intimate, matronal, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, well-conducted), influent (important, influential, powerful), important (big, consequential, considerable, goodly, grave, great, high, high-class, important, interesting, momentous, outstanding, prime, relevant, serious, significant, significative, substantial), hotãrâtor (all out, conclusive, crucial, decisive, determinative, final), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight), greoi (artless, bearish, dull, elephantine, gawky, heavy, hulking, lubberly, lumpish, massy, ponderous, slow, stodgy, stolid, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy), grav (austere, bad, badly, critical, grave, gravely, grievously, important, low, low-pitched, matronal, serious, solemn, stern), cu greutate (heavily, just, narrowly), concludent (clinching, cogent, conclusive, convincing, decisive, edifying, valid), barosan (big, huge, sizable, warm, well off). (various references)

Russian		тяжелый (clunky, difficile, grave, grievous, grinding, hammerblow, hammer-blow, hard, heartrending, heart-rending, heavy, leaden, lumping, ponderous, rough, rugged, severe, sopor, stodgy, wrenching), важный (consequential, donnish, earnest, first rate, grave, humungous, important, momentous, of consequence, of great moment, of importance, of significance, portentous, prancing, serious, significant, substantial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		značajan (consequential, grand, important, major, meaningful, momentous, notable, pertinent, significant, significative), važan (consequential, imperative, important, material, momentous, pertinent, serious), ubedljiv (cogent, conceivable, conclusive, convincing, decisive, persuasive, satisfying), težak (bulky, crushing, difficile, difficult, formidable, grave, hard, heavy, hefty, kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumbering, ponderous, punishing, rough, swingeing, trying, uneasy). (various references)

Spanish		pesado (awkward, boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, lacklustre, leaden, logy, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weary), importante (big, consequential, considerable, deferent, essential, great, important, important thing, large, leading, respectable, serious, significant, sizable, sizeable, top, valuable). (various references)

Swedish		tung (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, grievous, hard, heavy, hefty, onerous, ponderous, stodgy). (various references)

Turkish		sıkıntılı (annoying, constrained, cornered, dismal, distressed, dreary, Gray, grey, grueling, gruelling, troubled, troublesome, troublous, uneasy, unrestful), okkalı (important, round, whopping), nüfuzlu (ascendant, ascendent, dominant, important, influential, of weight, potent, powerful), hatırı sayılır (esteemed, princely, reputable, respectable, respected), endişeli (anxious, apprehensive, concerned, distressed, doubting, fearful, ill at ease, obsessed, on edge, on the downbeat, overcast, perturbed, preoccupied, solicitous, suspenseful, uneasy, windy, worried), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy), önemli (big, big time, capital, consequential, considerable, emphatic, emphatical, eventful, fateful, grand, grave, great, gut, healthy, heavy, high, historic, historical, important, leading, major, momentous, noteworthy, of importance, of note, of weight, prominent, respectable, serious, significant, smart, solemn, star, substantial, top-line, urgent, worthy). (various references)

Turkmen		uly (big in size, much). (various references)

Ukranian		вагомий (grave, ponderable, potent, valid), важкий (arduous, awkward, baffling, chargeable, complex, difficult, hard, heavy, heavyweight, laborious, leaden, muggy, near, opulent, ponderous, robust, sweaty, toilful, toilsome, trying, wall eyed, walloping), важливий (big, consequential, considerable, earnest, grand, grave, important, influential, interesting, momentous, newsworthy, purposeful, serious), обтяжливий (burdensome, exacting, heavy, onerous, oppressive), здоровенний (beefy, hefty). (various references)

Vietnamese		nặng vững, có uy thế lớn, có sức thuyết phục (convincing, persuasive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	gravis, serius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 3
Latin	405	Vulgate	Grave est saxum et onerosa harena sed ira stulti utroque gravior
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Heuy is the ston, and charious is the grauel; but the wrathe of the fool is heuyere than either.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
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Language	Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 3
Cebuano	¶ Ang usa ka bato mabug-at, ug ang balas maugdang; Apan ang kagul-anan sa usa ka buang labing mabug-at pa kay sa duruha.
Croatian	Težak je kamen i pijesak je težak, ali je od obojega teži bezumnikov bijes.
Danish	Sten er tung, og Sand vejer til, men tung fremfor begge er Dårers Galde.
Dutch	Een steen is zwaar, en het zand gewichtig; maar de toornigheid des dwazen is zwaarder dan die beide.
Finnish	Raskas on kivi ja painava hiekka, mutta molempia raskaampi hullun suuttumus.
French	La pierre est pesante et le sable est lourd, Mais l`humeur de l`insensé pèse plus que l`un et l`autre.
German	Stein ist schwer und Sand ist Last; aber des Narren Zorn ist schwerer denn die beiden.
Hungarian	Nehézség van a kõben, és teher a fövényben; de a bolondnak haragja nehezebb mind a kettõnél.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Batu dan pasir itu masih ringan, bila dibandingkan dengan sakit hati yang ditimbulkan oleh orang bodoh.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bahwa batu beratlah adanya dan pasirpun berat, tetapi gusar orang bodoh itu terlebih berat dari pada keduanya itu.
Maori	¶ He taimaha te kohatu, he taimaha ano te kirikiri; he taimaha atu ia i a raua tahi te pukuriri o te wairangi.
Norwegian	Stenen er tung, og sanden veier meget, men dårens harme er tyngre enn begge.
Portuguese	Pesada é a pedra, e a areia também; mas a ira do insensato é mais pesada do que elas ambas.
Rumanian	Piatra este grea, wi nisipul este greu, dar supqrarea pe care o pricinuiewte nebunul este mai grea de ckt amkndouq. -
Russian	фСЦЕМ ЛБНЕОШ, ЧЕУПЛ Й РЕУПЛ; ОП ЗОЕЧ ЗМХРГБ ФСЦЕМЕЕ ЙИ ПВПЙИ.
Spanish	Pesada es la piedra; también la arena pesa. Pero el enojo del insensato es más pesado que ambas.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Weighty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gerighty, Keighlty, Keighly, waity, weigth, weigthy, wieght. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "weighty" (pronounced wā"tē or wā"tē')
3	-ā" t ē	eighty, Matey, Paty, platy.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-t-w-y"
	-1 letter: eighty, weight, whitey.
	-2 letters: eight, thewy, weigh, white, whity, wight, withe, withy.
	-3 letters: hyte, thew, they, twig, whet, whey, whig, whit, wite, with, wyte, yeti.
	-4 letters: eth, get, gey, ghi, gie, git, het, hew, hey, hie, hit, teg, tew, the, thy, tie, tye, wet, why, wig, wit, wye, yeh, yet, yew.
	-5 letters: eh, et, he.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-t-w-y"
	+2 letters: flyweight, weightily.
	+3 letters: flyweights.
	+4 letters: heavyweight, pennyweight, witheringly.
	+5 letters: bewitchingly, heavyweights, pennyweights, weightlessly.
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