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weightier

/wey-tee/US // ˈweɪ ti //UK // (ˈweɪtɪ) //

较重的,较重,称重,更重

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    weight·i·er, weight·i·est.

    • : having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
    • : burdensome or troublesome: the weightier cares of sovereignty.
    • : important or momentous: weighty negotiations.
    • : having or exerting influence, power, etc.; influential: a weighty merchant of Boston.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.serious, important

Examples

  • I can tell you, in my opinion, this is the most weighty vote we have given in my seven years on the committee.

  • The company has little cash, weighty pension debts and lease commitments, and uncertain earnings.’

  • The spring-assist handle made lifting weighty wet stuff easier and put less strain on my back.

  • The company has little cash, weighty pension debts and lease commitments, and uncertain future earnings.

  • They’re all of a sudden burdened with the weighty responsibilities of adulthood – their first career choices, their first disappointments professionally, or maybe major ones romantically.

  • The sharply tailored blazer and weighty jewelry that cling to her body hints at the dominant personality she possesses.

  • She tackles weighty subjects with a naive sensibility and faux-innocence, but skillfully avoids dumbing them down.

  • “I believe in freedom of speech,” he says with a weighty stare.

  • Well, the implications would be many and weighty, both for the diminished USA and for the new entity.

  • Throughout, these weighty matters are examined candidly and wistfully, with the wisdom that only age and inwardness can bring.

  • Desks and boxes were thrust aside, the winch was manned, and the weighty lantern mounted slowly to its nocturnal watch-tower.

  • The experienced courtier may have thought the matter too weighty for women, for he wrote all privately to Burghley.

  • These were positive and weighty grievances, which ought, it was urged, to be remedied.

  • He urged that there should be "a temperate but weighty remonstrance" from parliament, backed by half a million Italian signatures.

  • It is a serious and weighty matter for you to decide; therefore should not be settled hastily.