Definition of Weighty

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Definition of Weighty
	Weighty Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. Related Definitions: Adapted, Afflictive, As, Balance, Body, Convince, Forcible, Having, Heavy, Important, In, Mind, Momentous, Or, Ponderous, Rigorous, Serious, Severe, The, To, Turn, Weight, Weighty

Weighty Quotations

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska

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.
Rudolf Otto

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West

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

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
Isaac Rosenberg

Weighty Translations

weighty in Dutch is zwaarwichtig
weighty in German is schwer
weighty in Italian is pesante
weighty in Latin is gravis
weighty in Spanish is pesado
weighty in Swedish is tung

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