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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈweɪti/ Audio: en-us-weighty.ogg Forms: weightier [comparative], weightiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪti Etymology: From Middle English weighti, weghti, wighti, equivalent to weight + -y. Cognate with Scots weichty, wechty, wichty, Saterland Frisian wichtich, West Frisian wichtich, Dutch wichtig, gewichtig, German wichtig, Danish vigtig, Swedish viktig. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|weighti}} Middle English weighti, {{suf|en|weight|y|id2=adjectival}} weight + -y, {{cog|sco|weichty}} Scots weichty, {{cog|stq|wichtich}} Saterland Frisian wichtich, {{cog|fy|wichtich}} West Frisian wichtich, {{cog|nl|wichtig}} Dutch wichtig, {{cog|de|wichtig}} German wichtig, {{cog|da|vigtig}} Danish vigtig, {{cog|sv|viktig}} Swedish viktig Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} weighty (comparative weightier, superlative weightiest)
  1. Having a lot of weight; heavy. Translations (heavy): ва́жкі (vážki) [masculine] (Belarusian), тежък (težǎk) (Bulgarian), zwaarwegend (Dutch), gewichtig (Dutch), wichtig (Dutch), pezega (Esperanto), მძიმე (mʒime) (Georgian), მძიმეწონიანი (mʒimec̣oniani) (Georgian), wichtig (German), pezoza (Ido), grava (Ido), vektig (Norwegian Bokmål), vektig (Norwegian Nynorsk), آغر (ağır) (Ottoman Turkish), وزین (vezin) (Ottoman Turkish), greu (Romanian), care atârnă greu (Romanian), тяжёлый (tjažólyj) (Russian), गुरु (guru) (Sanskrit), pesado (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-weighty-en-adj-8jx1DtIF Disambiguation of 'heavy': 64 22 14
  2. (figurative) Important; serious; not trivial or petty. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: grave, solemn, serious Translations (important; serious): tutarlı (Azerbaijani), убедителен (ubeditelen) (Bulgarian), tungtvejende [common-gender] (Danish), დამაჯერებელი (damaǯerebeli) (Georgian), მძლავრი (mʒlavri) (Georgian), schwergewichtig (German), vektig (Norwegian Bokmål), tungtveiende (Norwegian Bokmål), vektig (Norwegian Nynorsk), de peso (Spanish), tung (Swedish), stark (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-weighty-en-adj-AF7tgMpM Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 9 43 48 Disambiguation of 'important; serious': 4 90 7
  3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. Translations (rigorous; severe; afflictive): важен (važen) (Bulgarian), съществен (sǎštestven) (Bulgarian), 重要 (zhòngyào) (Chinese Mandarin), viktig (Danish), important (French), მნიშვნელოვანი (mnišvnelovani) (Georgian), სერიოზული (seriozuli) (Georgian), wichtig (German), importante (Italian), wichtich (Plautdietsch), serios (Romanian), important (Romanian), importante (Spanish), viktig (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: weightie [obsolete] Derived forms: weightily, weightiness

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "_dis1": "3 9 88",
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          "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
          "word": "serios"
        },
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          "_dis1": "3 9 88",
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
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          "_dis1": "3 9 88",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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}
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    "Rhymes:English/eɪti",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪti/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Plautdietsch translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
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      "word": "weightily"
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        "1": "stq",
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      "expansion": "Saterland Frisian wichtich",
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      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
        "2": "wichtich"
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "Dutch wichtig",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "wichtig"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "da",
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      },
      "expansion": "Danish vigtig",
      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
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      "form": "weightier",
      "tags": [
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          "ref": "1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Confiding Peasant and the Maladroit Bear:",
          "text": "And so a weighty rock she aimed / With much enthusiasm",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Thom Nickels, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls:",
          "text": "To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.",
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        }
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      ]
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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          "text": "a weighty argument",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1853, Solomon Northup, chapter IX, in [David Wilson], editor, Twelve Years a Slave. […], London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.; Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, →OCLC, page 130:",
          "text": "But I have now reached a point in the progress of my narrative, when it becomes necessary to turn away from these light descriptions, to the more grave and weighty matter of the second battle with Master Tibeats, and the flight through the great Pacoudrie Swamp.",
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        }
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        "(figurative) Important; serious; not trivial or petty."
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        {
          "word": "grave"
        },
        {
          "word": "solemn"
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        {
          "word": "serious"
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        "figuratively"
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      "glosses": [
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      "tags": [
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "vážki",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ва́жкі"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "težǎk",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "тежък"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "zwaarwegend"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "gewichtig"
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      "word": "wichtig"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "pezega"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mʒime",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "მძიმე"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "mʒimec̣oniani",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "მძიმეწონიანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "wichtig"
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    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "pezoza"
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      "code": "io",
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      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "grava"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "vektig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "vektig"
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    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "ağır",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "آغر"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "vezin",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "وزین"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "greu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "care atârnă greu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tjažólyj",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "тяжёлый"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "guru",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "गुरु"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "heavy",
      "word": "pesado"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "tutarlı"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ubeditelen",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "убедителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tungtvejende"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "damaǯerebeli",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "დამაჯერებელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mʒlavri",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "მძლავრი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "schwergewichtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "vektig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "tungtveiende"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "vektig"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "de peso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "tung"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "important; serious",
      "word": "stark"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "važen",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "важен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎštestven",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "съществен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhòngyào",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "重要"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "viktig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "important"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mnišvnelovani",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "მნიშვნელოვანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "seriozuli",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "სერიოზული"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "wichtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "importante"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "wichtich"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "serios"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "important"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "importante"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "rigorous; severe; afflictive",
      "word": "viktig"
    }
  ],
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}

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