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单词 weighty
释义
weightyweight‧y /ˈweɪti/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Before deciding on any weighty matter, he consults his staff.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • 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.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=an important matter)· I was surprised that this weighty matter was decided so quickly.
Word family
WORD FAMILYadjectiveoverweightunderweightweightedweightyweightlessnounweightweightsweightingverbweighoutweighweight
1important and serious:  She didn’t feel like discussing weighty matters.2literary heavy:  a weighty tome (=a big and heavy book)
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