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Weighty

//ˈweɪti// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a lot of weight; heavy.

    "And so a weighty rock she aimed / With much enthusiasm"

  2. 2
    Important; serious; not trivial or petty. figuratively

    "a weighty argument"

  3. 3
    Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
Adjective
  1. 1
    excessively fat wordnet
  2. 2
    having relatively great weight; heavy wordnet
  3. 3
    weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry wordnet
  4. 4
    of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought wordnet
  5. 5
    powerfully persuasive wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English weighti, weghti, wighti, equivalent to weight + -y. Cognate with Scots weichty, wechty, wichty, Saterland Frisian wichtich, West Frisian wichtich, Dutch wichtig, gewichtig, German wichtig, Danish vigtig, Swedish viktig. Compare typologically Russian ве́ский (véskij), весо́мый (vesómyj) (< вес (ves)). Also compare the same meaning development from cognate (by borrowing) Polish waga (< ... < Proto-Germanic *wēgō): ważny (whence Russian ва́жный (vážnyj)).

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