weighty
Valid in Scrabble
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- 17
- Words With Friends
- 16
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- 7
Definition of weighty
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Having a lot of weight; heavy.
“And so a weighty rock she aimed / With much enthusiasm”
“To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.”
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adj
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Having a lot of weight; heavy.
“And so a weighty rock she aimed / With much enthusiasm”
“To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.”
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(figuratively)Important; serious; not trivial or petty.
“a weighty argument”
“But I have now reached a point in the progress of my narrative, when it becomes necessary to turn away from these light descriptions, to the more grave and weighty matter of the second battle with Master Tibeats, and the flight through the great Pacoudrie Swamp.”
- Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English weighti, weghti, wighti, equivalent to weight + -y. Cognate with Scots weichty, wechty, wichty, Saterland Frisian wichtich, West Frisian wichtich, Dutch wichtig, gewichtig, German wichtig, Danish vigtig, Swedish viktig. Compare typologically Russian ве́ский (véskij), весо́мый (vesómyj) (< вес (ves)). Also compare the same meaning development from cognate (by borrowing) Polish waga (< ... < Proto-Germanic *wēgō): ważny (whence Russian ва́жный (vážnyj)).
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