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Definition of weighty in English:

weighty

adjectiveweightier, weightiest ˈweɪtiˈweɪdi
  • 1Weighing a great deal; heavy.

    沉重的,重的

    a weighty tome
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
    • Charlotte was carrying a heavy bag on her left shoulder and weighty shopping draped over the same arm - a sure recipe for disaster!
    • With increasingly weighty school bags and heavy workload after school, very little free time is left for the kids to enjoy their childhoods.
    • Creating a massive weighty object that not only flies, but hovers and takes off vertically is an amazing innovation, a marvel of modern engineering.
    • I admit that I proceeded with a heavy heart to read this weighty tome, but confess that I found each chapter pleasantly surprising.
    • Unlike the delicate quadrant, the mariner's astrolabe was a thick, weighty instrument typically made of cast bronze or brass.
    • He was tall and a bit on the thick weighty side, though it wasn't hard to see that he was also quite muscular.
    • Comparatively speaking, handheld devices are delicate, weighty, and bulky due to the glass screens.
    • He never truly liked a heavy meal nor anything that was either too rich or weighty.
    Synonyms
    heavy, massive, thick, bulky, hefty, cumbersome, clumsy, ponderous, overweight
    1. 1.1 Of great seriousness and importance.
      极其严肃的;十分重要的
      he threw off all weighty considerations of state

      他抛开了一切极其重要的国事考虑。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her lyrics deal with weighty subjects but she can be as flippant as the next joker.
      • It is significant that this weighty information is not revealed to the reader.
      • In fact, the film looks set to deal with some pretty weighty subject material in relation to all of its characters.
      • The movie was too weighty and took itself too seriously.
      • It is a problem that can have weighty consequences.
      • There are some hefty themes for what proves to be a weighty, worthy, serious-minded film.
      • There are no weighty issues to ponder when the credits roll.
      • The Shipping News deals with weighty issues and is intellectually intriguing, but I found myself uninvolved from start to finish.
      • There are the serious programmes, where weighty professors talk straight to camera and pronounce their conventional view of great kings and queens.
      • We commit to continuing to publish the serious scoops, the weighty investigative pieces and the incisive political analysis.
      • There's nothing serious or weighty about any of this.
      • The rules are taken seriously, and there are weighty consequences for breaking them.
      • I imagine that most of those people had never seen a film that dealt in such weighty matters,.
      • It is perhaps irresponsible to address a subject that currently has so many weighty associations and deal with it using only anecdotal evidence.
      • The Institute of Medicine has a distinguished history of publishing weighty reports on important subjects.
      • It is one of the very few books to deal with the weighty issue of science versus religion.
      • For years Irish politics dealt with weighty issues such as unemployment, closing the poverty gap and education for all.
      • You are taken more seriously because you have got a fairly weighty qualification behind you.
      • As the titles suggest, weighty topics are dealt with.
      Synonyms
      important, of great import/importance, significant, of significance, momentous, of moment, consequential, of consequence, far-reaching, key, major, vital, critical, crucial, life-and-death, high-priority, decisive, serious, grave, solemn
      no joke, no laughing matter
      burdensome, onerous, heavy, oppressive, stressful, taxing, troublesome, worrisome, vexatious
    2. 1.2 Having a great deal of influence on events or decisions.
      (对事件或决定)具有重要影响的
      the evidence for proprietorial interference has become even more weighty
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It feels like it's an incredibly weighty decision, that you can make a huge mistake.
      • Several of our intrepid heroes are forced to make some rather weighty decisions.
      • Would his superiors be angry with him if they found he had made so weighty a decision in their absence?
      • Businesses rarely rely exclusively on quantitative research to make weighty marketing decisions.
      • Prosperity and wealth can have a weighty influence.
      • It has been found that the smoking behaviours of best friends and peers have a weighty influence on adolescent smoking habits.
      • In politics this can be dangerous, because it encourages basing decisions, no matter how weighty, on whatever popular opinion momentarily prevails.
      • Of course, classification, region, and variety of grape are all weighty influences.
      • By the time they reach the thirties they face a myriad of weighty decisions about career, home, love, marriage, and babies.
      Synonyms
      compelling, cogent, strong, forceful, powerful, potent, convincing, plausible, effective, efficacious, effectual, sound, valid, well founded, telling
      impressive, persuasive, influential, authoritative

Derivatives

  • weightily

  • adverb ˈweɪtɪliˈweɪdəli
    • She plucks two huge medallions from her pocket that dangle weightily from rainbow-coloured tapes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The performance is weightily beautiful, even though it can't disguise the fact that this is essentially a piano solo with violin and cello accompaniment.
      • The large creature fell weightily into the mud, and its rider was smashed face-first into a hard rock.
      • By resisting the temptation to be weightily profound, the story succeeds in telling useful truths with a touch of levity.
      • He had been given a basket of apples and a revolver to sit weightily in his deep overcoat pocket.
  • weightiness

  • noun ˈweɪtɪnəsˈweɪdinəs
    • Speed, rotation, and lightness figure just as much as strength, resilience, and weightiness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Perhaps she feels her word, given the weightiness of her scholarship, is enough.
      • But these ‘shortcomings’ are more than made up by the weightiness of the issues that these articles jointly address.
      • He has insight, dept and has a great spiritual weightiness.
      • Perhaps it's because of the deluge of words, perhaps it's the weightiness of the subject, but one doesn't actually become involved emotionally.
      • The design does its best to give a semblance of weightiness to something no bigger than an essay.
      • The name is apt, given the weightiness and power of the work performed here.

Rhymes

Albacete, eighty, Haiti, Katy, Kuwaiti, Leyte, matey, pratie, slaty

Definition of weighty in US English:

weighty

adjectiveˈweɪdiˈwādē
  • 1Weighing a great deal; heavy.

    沉重的,重的

    a weighty candelabra

    沉甸甸的枝状大烛台。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With increasingly weighty school bags and heavy workload after school, very little free time is left for the kids to enjoy their childhoods.
    • He never truly liked a heavy meal nor anything that was either too rich or weighty.
    • I admit that I proceeded with a heavy heart to read this weighty tome, but confess that I found each chapter pleasantly surprising.
    • Unlike the delicate quadrant, the mariner's astrolabe was a thick, weighty instrument typically made of cast bronze or brass.
    • He was tall and a bit on the thick weighty side, though it wasn't hard to see that he was also quite muscular.
    • Charlotte was carrying a heavy bag on her left shoulder and weighty shopping draped over the same arm - a sure recipe for disaster!
    • There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
    • Comparatively speaking, handheld devices are delicate, weighty, and bulky due to the glass screens.
    • Creating a massive weighty object that not only flies, but hovers and takes off vertically is an amazing innovation, a marvel of modern engineering.
    Synonyms
    heavy, massive, thick, bulky, hefty, cumbersome, clumsy, ponderous, overweight
    1. 1.1 Of great seriousness and importance.
      极其严肃的;十分重要的
      he threw off all weighty considerations of state

      他抛开了一切极其重要的国事考虑。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are the serious programmes, where weighty professors talk straight to camera and pronounce their conventional view of great kings and queens.
      • I imagine that most of those people had never seen a film that dealt in such weighty matters,.
      • We commit to continuing to publish the serious scoops, the weighty investigative pieces and the incisive political analysis.
      • For years Irish politics dealt with weighty issues such as unemployment, closing the poverty gap and education for all.
      • There are no weighty issues to ponder when the credits roll.
      • There are some hefty themes for what proves to be a weighty, worthy, serious-minded film.
      • It is perhaps irresponsible to address a subject that currently has so many weighty associations and deal with it using only anecdotal evidence.
      • The rules are taken seriously, and there are weighty consequences for breaking them.
      • It is a problem that can have weighty consequences.
      • There's nothing serious or weighty about any of this.
      • It is significant that this weighty information is not revealed to the reader.
      • In fact, the film looks set to deal with some pretty weighty subject material in relation to all of its characters.
      • Her lyrics deal with weighty subjects but she can be as flippant as the next joker.
      • You are taken more seriously because you have got a fairly weighty qualification behind you.
      • As the titles suggest, weighty topics are dealt with.
      • It is one of the very few books to deal with the weighty issue of science versus religion.
      • The movie was too weighty and took itself too seriously.
      • The Institute of Medicine has a distinguished history of publishing weighty reports on important subjects.
      • The Shipping News deals with weighty issues and is intellectually intriguing, but I found myself uninvolved from start to finish.
      Synonyms
      important, of great import, of great importance, significant, of significance, momentous, of moment, consequential, of consequence, far-reaching, key, major, vital, critical, crucial, life-and-death, high-priority, decisive, serious, grave, solemn
      burdensome, onerous, heavy, oppressive, stressful, taxing, troublesome, worrisome, vexatious
    2. 1.2 Having a great deal of influence on events or decisions.
      (对事件或决定)具有重要影响的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Businesses rarely rely exclusively on quantitative research to make weighty marketing decisions.
      • It feels like it's an incredibly weighty decision, that you can make a huge mistake.
      • Would his superiors be angry with him if they found he had made so weighty a decision in their absence?
      • Several of our intrepid heroes are forced to make some rather weighty decisions.
      • It has been found that the smoking behaviours of best friends and peers have a weighty influence on adolescent smoking habits.
      • Of course, classification, region, and variety of grape are all weighty influences.
      • By the time they reach the thirties they face a myriad of weighty decisions about career, home, love, marriage, and babies.
      • Prosperity and wealth can have a weighty influence.
      • In politics this can be dangerous, because it encourages basing decisions, no matter how weighty, on whatever popular opinion momentarily prevails.
      Synonyms
      compelling, cogent, strong, forceful, powerful, potent, convincing, plausible, effective, efficacious, effectual, sound, valid, well founded, telling
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