Synonyms for weighty
ˈweɪ tiweighty

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1. weightyadjective

   having relatively great weight; heavy

   "a weighty load"; "a weighty package"

   Synonyms:
   heavy, corpulent, obese, grave, rotund, telling, grievous, cogent

   Antonyms:
   light, thin, dissuasive, lean, unimportant, weightless

2. cogent, telling, weightyadjective

   powerfully persuasive

   "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"

   Synonyms:
   heavy, corpulent, obese, grave, revealing, telltale(a), rotund, impressive, telling, grievous, cogent

   Antonyms:
   weightless, thin, unimportant, light, lean, dissuasive

3. grave, grievous, heavy, weightyadjective

   of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

   "grave responsibilities"; "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"

   Synonyms:
   heartrending, sullen, laborious, heavy, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, corpulent, sound, serious, gruelling, dense, grueling, wakeless, with child(p), threatening, solemn, grave, profound, backbreaking, severe, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, flagitious, grievous, monstrous, fleshy, atrocious, weighed down, hard, impenetrable, life-threatening, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, sedate, heartbreaking, sonorous, dangerous, arduous, operose, sober, rotund, heavy(p), big(a), labored, obese, laboured, punishing, cogent, telling, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, light, thin, lean, dissuasive, weightless

4. weightyadjective

   weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry

   "weighty problems"

   Synonyms:
   heavy, corpulent, obese, grave, rotund, telling, grievous, cogent

   Antonyms:
   light, unimportant, lean, weightless, dissuasive, thin

5. corpulent, obese, weighty, rotundadjective

   excessively fat

   "a weighty man"

   Synonyms:
   pear-shaped, heavy, corpulent, obese, round, rotund, orotund, grave, telling, grievous, cogent

   Antonyms:
   lean, weightless, unimportant, thin, dissuasive, light

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1. weightyadjective

   Synonyms:
   HEAVY, ponderous, onerous

2. weightyadjective

   Synonyms:
   important, influential, efficacious, forcible, momentous, grave, serious, of consequence

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1. weightyadjective

   Synonyms:
   heavy, ponderous, massive, onerous, momentous, important, pregnant, serious

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1. List of paraphrases for "weighty":

   heavy, weight, onerous

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How to use weighty in a sentence?

1. Morgan Ortagus:

   The United States and the DPRK [ North Korea ] will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of Earlier Saturday, these are weighty issues, and they require a strong commitment by both countries. United States has that commitment.

2. William Consovoy:

   Federal courts may not decline to resolve a controversy within their traditional competence and proper jurisdiction simply because, as is the situation here, the question is difficult, the consequences weighty, or the potential real for conflict with the policy preferences of the political branches.

3. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf:

   I take this action only after significant consideration and reflection, there is perhaps no more weighty a responsibility assigned to the governor than his or her role as the final check in the capital punishment process.

4. Andersen Brower:

   When they wade into weighty policy issues, as Hillary Clinton did, it always breaks bad for them. When Barbara Bush held a baby suffering from AIDS, it sent an extremely powerful message at a time when some people were worried about catching AIDS simply by touching someone who had it, first ladies don't have to make a campaign of something, they just need to make sure the press is there to capture a moment. Barbara Bush knew how consequential that photo would become.

5. Oscar W. Firkins:

   Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.