weightyweight‧y /ˈweɪti/ adjective - Before deciding on any weighty matter, he consults his staff.
- But it finds agreement with more sober, weighty judgements on the period provided by various studies of the official criminal statistics.
- High-handicap Kaori, however, foresaw a weightier problem: her bag.
- I confess that I was surprised that this weighty matter was decided so quickly and with so little ceremony.
- Reading a terse or weighty document will inhibit, rather than encourage, word flow.
- Remember that books are weighty things.
- The State of the Union address was a weighty and substantial occurence, though without startling new developments.
- When I was out of the room, he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that.
► a weighty matter (=an important matter)· I was surprised that this weighty matter was decided so quickly.
adjectiveoverweight ≠ underweightweightedweightyweightlessnounweightweightsweightingverbweighoutweighweight