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Meanings of weighty in English

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Excessively fat.

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        Powerfully persuasive.

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              Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought.

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                    Having relatively great weight; heavy.

                          Usage of weighty in English
                          1
                          South Africa has a history of imposing weighty conditions on foreign takeovers.
                          Reuters
                          2
                          Its weighty subject matter is leavened by Rivera's trickster-like sense of humor.
                          Wired
                          3
                          The solution of weighty problems in large part depends upon the answer.
                          History of Liberia / Johns Hopkins University Studies in Histori...
                          4
                          The subjects are simple, large, weighty; the form is compact, strong, suggestive.
                          Poems and Songs
                          5
                          Christ's personal ministry was confined to Israel for obvious and weighty reasons.
                          Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
                          6
                          Neither without grave and weighty reasons should she seek to leave it.
                          Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America
                          7
                          No animal of the same size is as weighty as the cheeta.
                          The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2
                          8
                          The pros and cons of the argument were equally numerous and weighty.
                          Number Seventeen
                          9
                          The weighty discussion mostly centres on the challenges of affection and longing.
                          The Guardian
                          10
                          Amps and Receivers A good vintage amp is weighty with solid knobs.
                          Wired
                          11
                          It may prove the means of rendering weighty service to the republic.
                          Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
                          12
                          Then it is a very weighty gas-itis heavier than the atmosphere.
                          The Chemical History of a Candle
                          13
                          He made the words seem like nothing more weighty than polite conversation.
                          Cibola Burn
                          14
                          A constructive relationship with a supportive and weighty chairman is also critical.
                          Reuters
                          15
                          Doggedly he began to climb the next flight, foot by weighty foot.
                          A Tale of Time City
                          16
                          More weighty than many of the more pretentious treatises on the subject.
                          Women and War Work
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                          Weighty through the time
                          Weighty across language varieties
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