Category:Weighty

Weight"y, a. [compar. Weightier; superl. Weightiest.]

1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.

2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; Important; forcible; serious; momentous. "for sundry weighty Reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.

3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. [r.] "attend our weightier Judgment." Shak.

Syn. -- heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous; Efficacious; impressive; cogent.