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weightyadjective having a matter of importance as its topicinterrupted a weighty discussion with a silly question grave, heavy, serious big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, portentous, significant, solid, substantial light, unserious frivolous, insignificant, lite, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, silly, slight, small, trivial, unimportant having great meaning or lasting effectchoosing a college is a weighty decision big, consequential, earth-shattering, earthshaking, eventful, historic, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, monumental, much, significant, substantial, tectonic decisive, fatal, fateful, strategicearnest, grave, heavy, serious, sinceredistinctive, exceptional, impressive, outstanding, prominent, remarkablevaluable, worthwhile, worthydistinguished, eminent, great, illustrious, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, preeminent, prestigiousfamous, notorious, renownedall-important, central, critical, crucial, essential, key, pivotal, seminal, vital inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, minor, negligible, slight, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant paltry, petty, worthlessanonymous, nameless, obscure, uncelebrated, unknown having great weightlifted the weighty sack and wondered what was in it heavy, hefty, massive, ponderous burdensome, leaden, lumpishbulky, elephantine, massy, outsize(also outsized), voluminousoverweight, top-heavysolid, substantialultraheavy light, weightless airy, ethereal, feathery, fluffy, gossamer, gossameryflimsy, insubstantial, slightlightweight, undersized(also undersize), underweightultralight, ultralightweight not joking or playful in mood or mannerthe police office looked at me with a rather weighty expression earnest, grave, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced(British), sedate, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling harsh, stern, strictbusinesslike, professionaldignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-mindedgloomy, grim facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical(also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproariousfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrainedabsurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky(also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany having power over the minds or behavior of othersone of the weightiest figures in the field of pediatric medicine authoritative, forceful, influential cogent, controlling, dominating, masterfuldominant, predominant, regnant, sovereign(also sovran), supremeeminent, important, momentous helpless, impotent, powerless, weakincapable, unable heavy, weighty, ponderous, cumbrous, cumbersome mean having great weight.heavy implies that something has greater density or thickness than the average of its kind or class.a heavy child for his age weighty suggests having actual and not just relative weight.a load of weighty boxes ponderous implies having great weight because of size and massiveness with resulting great inertia.ponderous elephants in a circus parade cumbrous and cumbersome imply heaviness and bulkiness that make for difficulty in grasping, moving, carrying, or manipulating.wrestled with the cumbrous furniture early cameras were cumbersome and inconvenient in the 15th century |