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Pronunciation : Weight"y
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : 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. [R.] "Attend our weightier judgment." Shak.
Syn. -- Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous; efficacious; impressive; cogent.
[Compar. Weightier; superl. Weightiest.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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