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Weighty

adjective

(compar. weightier; superl. weightiest)

Having relatively great weight; heavy. "A weighty package"

Powerfully persuasive. Synonyms: cogent, telling. "A telling presentation" , "A weighty argument"

Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought. Synonyms: grave, grievous, heavy. "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"

Weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry.

Excessively fat. Synonyms: corpulent, obese, rotund.

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"Weighty" Quotes from Famous Books

... weighty considerations which might be adduced here, proving how much depends upon efficient maternal management in the time of sickness; but they will be severally dwelt upon, when the diseases with which they are more particularly ...

— The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. • Thomas Bull, M.D.

... very weighty reasons, which I have been careful to bear in mind that I may impart them to you at the right time ...

— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus

... with the squint of a politician. Those whose opportunities were limited to reading a full report of the speech perceived even more clearly that Lord Randolph had lost none of his ancient power, had even, with added years and garnered experience, grown in weighty counsel. ...

— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... There are also several reasons for a man's love for his father; and these, in a certain respect, namely, as regards good, are more weighty than those for which a man loves his wife; although the latter outweigh the former as regards the closeness ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... and not its essence, are known. In the terminology of science it is generally called "a new mode of motion," or, in other words, a new force. As to whether it is or not actually a force new to science, or one of the known forces masquerading under strange conditions, weighty authorities are already arguing. More than one eminent scientist has already affected to see in it a key to the great mystery of the law of gravity. All who have expressed themselves in print have admitted, with more or less frankness, that, in view of Roentgen's ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

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