weighty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective having relatively great weight; heavy
    • a weighty load
    • a weighty package
  2. adjective satellite powerfully persuasive
    telling; cogent.
    • a cogent argument
    • a telling presentation
    • a weighty argument
  3. adjective satellite of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
    heavy; grievous; grave.
    • 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
  4. adjective satellite weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry
    • weighty problems
  5. adjective satellite excessively fat
    rotund; obese; corpulent.
    • a weighty man

WordNet

Weight"y adjective
Wordforms
comparative Weightier ; superlative Weightiest
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913