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weighty

adj
/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. Compare typologically Russian ве́ский (véskij), весо́мый (vesómyj) (< вес (ves)). Also compare the same meaning development from cognate (by borrowing) Polish waga (< ... < Proto-Germanic *wēgō): ważny (whence Russian ва́жный (vážnyj)).

  1. inherited from weighti

Definitions

  1. Having a lot of weight

    Having a lot of weight; heavy.

    • And so a weighty rock she aimed / With much enthusiasm
    • 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.

  2. Important

    Important; serious; not trivial or petty.

    • a weighty argument

  3. Rigorous

    Rigorous; severe; afflictive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at weighty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at weighty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at weighty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA