What does weighty mean?
Weighty means Having a lot of weight; heavy..
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/ˈweɪti/ · adjective
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.
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.
Use weighty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Weighty means Having a lot of weight; heavy..
Common synonyms include grave, solemn, austere, frightful.
Possible antonyms include weightless.
And so a weighty rock she aimed / With much enthusiasm
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