weighty

Meaning

1. Having a lot of weight; heavy.
2. Important; serious; not trivial or petty.
3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive.

Synonyms

heavy

important

grave

🪦

significant

onerous

serious

burdensome

ponderous

powerful

momentous

substantial

massive

major

corpulent

stodgy

profound

influential

ponderable

big

difficult

rotund

obese

appreciable

grievous

real

deep

key

🔑

sizable

leaden

cumbrous

lumbering

cogent

telling

meaningful

hefty

considerable

high

primary

principal

purposeful

resourceful

responsible

right

saturnine

solid

stable

stringent

strong

substantive

tangible

toiling

tough

unbearable

unmanageable

unportable

unwieldy

vigorous

vital

waterlogged

weighted

wise

not light

adult

🧑

heayy

authoritative

backbreaking

beefy

bulky

crucial

cumbersome

dear

drudging

earnest

essential

forceful

full-grown

gigantic

great

grown-up

hard

heavy-duty

heinous

huge

immense

intolerable

judicious

labored

laboring

laboured

labouring

large

logy

lumpish

meaty

necessary

of age

painful

persuasive

plodding

pregnant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈweɪti/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: weighti

Cognate with Scots: weichty

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: wichtich

Cognate with Western Frisian: wichtich

Cognate with Dutch: wichtig

Cognate with German: wichtig

Cognate with Danish: vigtig

Cognate with Swedish: viktig

In summary

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.