weighty
IPA: wˈeɪti
adjective
- Having a lot of weight; heavy.
- (figurative) Important; serious; not trivial or petty.
- Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
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Examples of "weighty" in Sentences
- These issues are identified as weighty obstacles for rigid economic growth.
- Impossible not to recall the weighty judgment of one of Stevenson's characters upon the
- I felt this lent the film a certain weighty irony; something that would have been lost had a human being taken the part.
- That soul cannot perish, nor that concern fall to the ground, though ever so weighty, that is by faith hung upon Christ.
- After his assassination, finally, some recalled a weighty incident in connection with his gilded chair, -- that the servant, as
- First, my book group was reading what can only be described as a weighty tome, which took a lot of time to get through, even if it was enjoyable.
- The dancer has also been cast in a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, which makes its premiere May 24, that she described as a weighty, funereal pas de deux with principle Marcelo Gomes.
- Christ Jesus, who broaches false doctrines and propagates them to the corrupting of the faith in weighty and momentous points, and breaks the peace of the church about them, after due means used to reclaim him, must be rejected.
- It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard
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