weighty

Meaning

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

Concepts

weighty

heavy

important

grave

significant

onerous

serious

burdensome

ponderous

powerful

substantial

momentous

major

stodgy

corpulent

massive

obese

rotund

ponderable

big

difficult

profound

influential

appreciable

considerable

key

real

sizable

grievous

cogent

telling

high

deep

meaningful

cumbrous

hefty

leaden

lumbering

adult

full-grown

grown-up

of age

judicious

right

intolerable

unbearable

gigantic

huge

immense

meaty

not light

heayy

earnest

stringent

bulky

authoritative

great

large

primary

principal

responsible

wise

beefy

labored

laboured

logy

lumpish

pregnant

saturnine

waterlogged

cumbersome

hard

unmanageable

unportable

unwieldy

backbreaking

drudging

heavy-duty

laboring

labouring

painful

plodding

toiling

tough

weighted

dear

essential

necessary

substantive

vital

persuasive

crucial

strong

tangible

solid

stable

heinous

forceful

vigorous

purposeful

resourceful

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈweɪti/

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.