Unweighty

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not weighty.

    "[…] the instances and arguments given by him are very unweighty and trivial to conclude the nature of man to be so full of jealousie and malignity, as he would have it believed to be, from that common practice of circumspection and providence, which custom and discretion hath introduced in human life."

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"[…] the instances and arguments given by him are very unweighty and trivial to conclude the nature of man to be so full of jealousie and malignity, as he would have it believed to be, from that common practice of circumspection and providence, which custom and discretion hath introduced in human life."

Etymology

From un- + weighty. Attested since the 17th century.

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