ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Weighted

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈweɪ.tɪd/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Weighted is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of weight.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of weight.

More Meanings

  1. Having weights on it.
  2. Biased, so as to favour one party.
  3. (graph theory, of a graph) having values assigned to its edges
  4. (statistics) With the components of an average multiplied by particular factors so as to take account of their relative importance.
  5. Containing a large proportion (of something).

Example Sentences

She wore a weighted dress so it wouldn't blow in the wind.
The competition was weighted so he'd be the clear favourite to win.
Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.

Synonyms for weighted

Depending on context, synonyms include heavy, leaden, adjusted.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heavy, adjusted, leaden, balancing, offset, balanced.

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