Word Meanings - WEIGHTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.

Additional info about word: WEIGHTY

1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift. 3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. "Attend our weightier judgment." Shak. Syn. -- Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous; efficacious; impressive; cogent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WEIGHTY)

• Grave
• Sad
• serious
• momentous
• weighty
• pressing
• sedate
• demure
• thoughtful
• sober
• sombre
• solemn
• important
• aggravated
• heavy
• cogent
• Important
• Significant
• expressive
• relevant
• main
• leading
• considerable
• great
• dignified
• influential
• material
• grave
• essential
• Massive
• Solid
• huge
• colossal
• mighty
• vast
• Ponderous
• Weighty
• bulky
• massive
• burdensome
• onerous
• Serious
• careful
• earnest

Related words: (words related to WEIGHTY)

• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• ONEROUS
  Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause , a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• SOLEMNIZE
  1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• AGGRAVATING
  1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
• SOLEMN
  Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• SOLEMNIZATE
  To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some