weighty

CEFRB2

/ˈweɪti/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Heavy, important, or needing serious thought.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Important; serious; not trivial or petty.

Examples

  • The committee discussed several weighty issues during the meeting.

  • That's a weighty argument.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Rigorous; severe; afflictive.

  2. Having a lot of weight; heavy.

More examples

In context

  • a weighty argument

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

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)).