weighty 的定义
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.
weighty 近义词
heavy
serious, important
troublesome, difficult
更多weighty例句
- 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.