a. | 1. | Having weight; heavy; ponderous; |
2. | Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. | |
3. | Rigorous; severe; afflictive. |
Adj. | 1. | weighty - having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load"; "a weighty package" Antonyms: weightless - having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric" |
2. | weighty - 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" | |
3. | weighty - weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems" | |
4. | weighty - excessively fat; "a weighty man" | |
5. | weighty - powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" |