What is another word for weightier?

Pronunciation: [wˈe͡ɪtɪə] (IPA)

Weightier refers to something that has more importance or significance. Synonyms for this word include crucial, significant, important, serious, substantial, and momentous. These words all convey the idea that something carries a great deal of weight and is worthy of serious consideration. Other synonyms for weightier may also include consequential, grave, weighty, and significant. These words describe an event, idea or object that is of utmost importance and carries a great deal of significance and impact. We use weightier words when we want to convey the importance or seriousness of a situation, idea, or event, and we want to emphasize the gravity of the circumstance.

What are the hypernyms for Weightier?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Weightier

Doubtless he had other, and possibly weightier, causes of complaint; but this was the head and front of America's offending.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Some hove the guns overboard, others got up the weightier stores, the boatswain's party being engaged in chopping up the cables and throwing them into the sea.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
But weightier questions remain behind.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods

Famous quotes with Weightier

  • The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
    Charles Simmons
  • Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
    Laertius Diogenes
  • Doniger is fond of using pseudoscientific language to make her dismissive, negative and often poorly evidenced opinions on Hinduism sound weightier than they are—claiming for instance that Western feminists who embrace the Hindu Goddess are wrong because, when she compares India to Monotheistic, Male- God cultures, there is “in general an inverse ratio between the worship of goddesses and the granting of rights to human women.” Doniger does not produce any evidence to substantiate this sweeping statement which she has made....
    Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
  • There is yet a further and a weightier reason for the permanency of the Judicial offices, which is deducible from the nature of the qualifications they require.To avoid an arbitrary discretion in the Courts, it is indispensable that they should be bound down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point out their duty in every particular case that comes before them; and it will readily be conceived from the variety of controversies which grow out of the folly and wickedness of mankind, that the records of those precedents must unavoidably swell to a very considerable bulk, and must demand long and laborious study to acquire a competent knowledge of them. Hence it is, that there can be but few men in the society, who will have sufficient skill in the laws to qualify them for the stations of Judges.a temporary duration in office, which would naturally discourage such characters from quitting a lucrative line of practice to accept a seat on the Bench, would have a tendency to throw the administration of justice into hands less able, and less well qualified, to conduct it with utility and dignity.
    Alexander Hamilton
  • Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
    Diogenes Laërtius

Related words: weightier than something, more weightier, more hefty, great weight, heavy weight, heavy-duty weight

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