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What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
Cotton Mather

Meaning of "weighty" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WEIGHTY

weighty  [ˈweɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEIGHTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Weighty is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WEIGHTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

weighty

Weight

In science and engineering, the weight of an object is usually taken to be the force on the object due to gravity. Its magnitude, often denoted by an italic letter W, is the product of the mass m of the object and the magnitude of the local gravitational acceleration g; thus: W = mg. The unit of measurement for weight is that of force, which in the International System of Units is the newton. For example, an object with a mass of one kilogram has a weight of about 9.8 newtons on the surface of the Earth, and about one-sixth as much on the Moon. In this sense of weight, a body can be weightless only if it is far away from any gravitating mass. The term weight and mass are often confused with each other in everyday discourse but they are distinct quantities. There is also a rival tradition within Newtonian physics and engineering which sees weight as that which is measured when one uses scales. There the weight is a measure of the magnitude of the reaction force exerted on a body.

Definition of weighty in the English dictionary

The first definition of weighty in the dictionary is having great weight. Other definition of weighty is important or momentous. Weighty is also causing anxiety or worry.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WEIGHTY


deity
ˈdeɪtɪ
eighty
ˈeɪtɪ
Haiti
ˈheɪtɪ
Kowaiti
kəʊˈweɪtɪ
Koweiti
kəʊˈweɪtɪ
Kuwaiti
kʊˈweɪtɪ
matey
ˈmeɪtɪ
maty
ˈmeɪtɪ
paneity
pæˈneɪtɪ
platy
ˈpleɪtɪ
postnati
pəʊstˈneɪtɪ
pratie
ˈpreɪtɪ
slatey
ˈsleɪtɪ
slaty
ˈsleɪtɪ
tatie
ˈteɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEIGHTY

weightage
weighted
weighted average
weighter
weightier
weightiest
weightily
weightiness
weighting
weighting allowance
weightless
weightlessly
weightlessness
weightlifter
weightlifting
weights and measures
weights and measures inspector
weights bench

WORDS THAT END LIKE WEIGHTY

all righty
almighty
blighty
doughty
draughty
droughty
flighty
foughty
haughty
high and mighty
mighty
naughty
nighty
overmighty
righty
the Almighty

Synonyms and antonyms of weighty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WEIGHTY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «weighty» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of weighty

Translation of «weighty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEIGHTY

Find out the translation of weighty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of weighty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «weighty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

严重的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de peso
570 millions of speakers

English

weighty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वजनदार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

راجح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

весомым
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pesado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গুরু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

important
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berat badan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gewichtig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

>深刻な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중대한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bobot
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nặng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கனமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वजनदार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ağır
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

importante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ważkie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вагомим
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cu greutate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βαρύ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gewigtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vägande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tungtveiende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of weighty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEIGHTY»

The term «weighty» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.379 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEIGHTY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about weighty

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7 QUOTES WITH «WEIGHTY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word weighty.
1
Julie Klausner
If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer.
2
Cotton Mather
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
3
Yoshihiko Noda
When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
4
Rudolf Otto
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
5
Isaac Rosenberg
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
6
Vita Sackville-West
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
7
Tony Vincent
I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEIGHTY»

Discover the use of weighty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to weighty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Weighty Word Book
Provides definitions for twenty-six vocabulary words from abasement to zealot with stories containing puns that provide mnemonic devices for remembering the definitions.
Paul M. Levitt, Douglas A. Burger, Elissa S. Guralnick, 2009
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Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness As Social Problems
This book however draws from and contributes to social constructionist perspectives. The chapters in this volume offer several perspectives that can be used to understand the way society deals with fatness and thinness.
Jeffery Sobal, Donna Maurer
3
On the Scale, a Weighty Tale
Introduces essential measurement units, from grams to pounds to tons.
Brian P. Cleary, 2010
4
Weighty Words, Too
Burdensome Katzenjammer Mystify Wondrous Zany These are five of the twenty-six words, one for each letter of the alphabet, that appear in Weighty Words, Too.
Paul Levitt, Elissa Guralnick, 2009
5
Weighty Ambitions: Fat Actors and Figurations in American ...
This study offers a way to understand the social, class-based origins of America's obsessive regulation of fat in the twentieth century.
Jerry Dean Mosher, 2007
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Solution to the Country's Weighty Problems: The Body Mass ...
Solution to the Country’s Weighty Problems: The Body Mass Index Reduction Program, (BMIRP) is a tongue in cheek book with hilarious illustrations suggesting the enactment of a federally mandated weight -reduction program to address the ...
Val Serbalik, 2012
7
Weighty Words from the Writings of J
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
J. N. Darby, 2010
8
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your ...
Arguing that wheat is the single largest contributor to the nation's obesity epidemic, a guide to losing weight by eliminating wheat from a diet applies cutting-edge nutritional guidelines to a step-by-step plan also designed to address ...
William Davis, 2011
9
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of ...
An irreverent and accessible explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, the shape of the universe as reflected by a ...
Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird, 2006
10
Dieting and Other Weighty Issues: Girl Code Books
Exception: If you haven't been kissed since the '80s, she'll understand." On dieting and other weighty issues: "Friends don't let friends wear fanny packs." Witty and wild, these volumes make the perfect gift for girls of every age.
Cathy Hamilton, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEIGHTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term weighty is used in the context of the following news items.
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The liver's weighty problem
A healthy liver (1) can progress to fat accumulation (2) and then to NASH, which features inflammation (3), cell swelling (4), and sometimes scarring (5). «Science Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Greece's Weighty Decision
The weighty responsibility is not being made any easier by the politicking about what the referendum actually means. In the first place, the actual referendum ... «STRATFOR, Jun 15»
3
Early, weighty choices in 'Frontline' doc 'Growing Up Trans'
NEW YORK (AP) — "Growing Up Trans" explores the transgender phenomenon as younger people than ever (and their parents) now experience it: a frontier of ... «Albany Times Union, Jun 15»
4
High court rules on web-shooters and raisins, waits on more weighty
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Depression-era government program that requires farmers to turn over part of their raisin crops to boost market prices is ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
5
Goodbye, Lenin: how a weighty symbol of the Soviet past divided a …
Ukrainian nationalists pose before the statue of Lenin in Sloviansk before tearing it down earlier this month. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
6
Ai Weiwei's RA show to house weighty remnants from Sichuan …
About 90 tonnes of steel reinforcing bars, which were mangled and twisted in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, are to be a key installation at a UK retrospective ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Trading Shots: Weighty issues for Kelvin Gastelum
In this week's Trading Shots, UFC President Dana White says Kelvin Gastelum doesn't get to move back down to welterweight. Should that be his call to make? «MMAjunkie.com, Jun 15»
8
Virginia faces a weighty choice on transportation priorities
When Virginia chooses transportation projects, should it narrowly look only at what makes cars move faster? Or should it consider how each project will ... «Greater Greater Washington, Jun 15»
9
Male stag beetles face weighty problem for flight
Male stag beetles face weighty problem for flight. Insects' giant jaws are as much of a nuisance as they look. By. Susan Milius. 7:00am, May 18, 2015. computer ... «Science News, May 15»
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Cameron's weighty choices to shape US-UK relations
London (CNN) No one, probably not even David Cameron himself, thought it would end like this. The British Prime Minister's stunning election victory on ... «CNN, May 15»

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