weighty - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | weighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavy |
| Synonyms: | burdensome, cumbersome, dense, fat, fleshy, hefty, massive, obese, overweight, ponderous, porcine, portly, stout, cumbrous |
| Antonyms: | light, small, thin, unsubstantial |
| Main Entry: | weighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | serious, important |
| Synonyms: | big, big deal*, consequential, considerable, critical, crucial, earnest, forcible, grave, heavy*, material, meaningful, momentous, no-nonsense*, portentous, sedate, severe, significant, sober, solemn, somber, staid, substantial, heavyweight, life and death, underlined |
| Antonyms: | inconsequential, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome, difficult |
| Synonyms: | backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, exacting, exigent, grievous, onerous, oppressive, taxing, tough, worrisome, worrying, crushing, superincumbent |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, solvable |
| Main Entry: | bulky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | awkward, beefy, big, colossal, cumbersome, enormous, gross, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, immense, large, long, mammoth, massive, ponderous, substantial, unmanageable, unwieldy, voluminous, weighty, cumbrous, unhandy |
| Antonyms: | insubstantial, miniature, small, thin, tiny |
| Main Entry: | burdensome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | demanding, difficult, disturbing, exacting, exigent, heavy*, irksome, onerous, oppressive, taxing, tough, trying, wearing, weighty, carking, crushing, superincumbent, wearying |
| Antonyms: | helpful, helping, aiding, relieving, unburdensome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | most important, essential |
| Synonyms: | arch, capital, cardinal, central, champion, consequential, controlling, crucial, effective, especial, first, foremost, grand, head, highest, key, leading, main, major, momentous, number one, outstanding, paramount, potent, predominant, preeminent, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, ruling, significant, star, stellar, superior, supreme, telling, uppermost, vital, weighty |
| Antonyms: | minor, secondary, subordinate, unimportant, unnecessary, inessential |
| Main Entry: | cogent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective |
| Synonyms: | apposite, apt, compelling, conclusive, consequential, convincing, fitting, forceful, forcible, influential, irresistible, meaningful, momentous, persuasive, pertinent, potent, powerful, relevant, satisfactory, satisfying, significant, solid, sound, strong, telling, urgent, valid, weighty, well-grounded, convictive, inducing, justified, puissant, suasive |
| Antonyms: | impotent, ineffective, invalid, weak |
| Main Entry: | consequential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant |
| Synonyms: | big, considerable, eventful, far-reaching, grave, important, material, meaningful, momentous, serious, substantial, weighty |
| Antonyms: | inconsequential, insignificant, uneventful, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | corpulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fat, chubby |
| Synonyms: | beefy*, blimp*, bulky, burly, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, hefty, husky, large, lusty, obese, overblown, overweight, plump, portly, roly-poly*, rotund, stout, tubby, weighty, baby elephant, embonpoint, having a bay window, having a spare tire, well-padded |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, slight, thin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cumbersome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, awkward |
| Synonyms: | bulky, burdensome, embarrassing, heavy, hefty, inconvenient, leaden, massive, oppressive, ponderous, tiresome, unmanageable, unwieldy, wearisome, weighty, clunker, clunking, clunky, cumbrous, galumphing, incommodious, unhandy |
| Antonyms: | graceful |
| Main Entry: | demanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | challenging, urgent |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty, backbreaker, exhausting, nagging |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | exacting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | burdensome, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty, by the book, nit-picking |
| Antonyms: | giving, lending |
| Main Entry: | fleshy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | ample, beefy*, brawny, chubby*, chunky*, corpulent, fat, gross, heavy, hefty, husky, meaty*, obese, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy*, stout, tubby*, weighty, adipose, pulpy, sarcous, well-padded, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | skinny, thin, underweight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, powerful |
| Synonyms: | cogent, commanding, compelling, convincing, dominant, dynamic, electric, elemental, energetic, forcible, gutsy*, mighty, persuasive, pithy, potent, punch, punchy*, steamroller, stringent, strong, telling, titanic, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, weighty, ball of fire, bullish, coming on strong, constraining, powerhouse, puissant, take-charge, take-over |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
| Antonyms: | feeble, impotent, ineffective, meek, weak, unforceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forcible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerful, aggressive |
| Synonyms: | active, armed, assertive, cogent, compelling, compulsory, drastic, effective, efficient, energetic, forceful, impressive, intense, mighty, militant, persuasive, potent, strong, telling, valid, vehement, vigorous, violent, weighty, coercive, puissant |
| Antonyms: | weak, nonaggressive |
| Main Entry: | grievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, painful; serious |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, appalling, atrocious, calamitous, damaging, deplorable, dire, dismal, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, grave, harmful, heavy*, heinous, hurtful, injurious, intolerable, lamentable, monstrous, mournful, offensive, onerous, oppressive, outrageous, pathetic, pitiful, sad, shameful, sharp, shocking, sorrowful, taxing, tough, tragic, troublesome, unbearable, villainous, weighty*, afflicting, heart-rending, upsetting, wounding |
| Antonyms: | good, harmless, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hefty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, bulky |
| Synonyms: | ample, awkward, beefy*, brawny, burly, colossal, cumbersome, extensive, fat, forceful, heavy, hulking, husky, large, major, massive, muscular, ponderous, powerful, robust, sizable, strapping*, strong, sturdy, substantial, tremendous, unwieldy, vigorous, weighty, large-scale, thumping |
| Antonyms: | slight, small, thin, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | high-powered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerful |
| Synonyms: | authoritarian, authoritative, commanding, controlling, dominant, dynamic, effective, effectual, forceful, forcible, influential, mighty, potent, robust, ruling, strong, supreme, weighty, in control, in the saddle |
| Main Entry: | hulking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | massive |
| Synonyms: | big, bulky, clumsy, colossal, cumbersome, elephantine, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, gigantic, grand, great, heavy, hefty, huge, immense, imposing, large, lumbering, mammoth, monumental, solid, titanic, towering, tremendous, unwieldy, weighty |
| Main Entry: | influential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, powerful |
| Synonyms: | affecting, authoritative, controlling, dominant, efficacious, famous, forcible, governing, important, impressive, inspiring, instrumental, leading, meaningful, momentous, moving, name, persuasive, potent, prominent, significant, strong, substantial, telling, touching, weighty, big-gun, big-wheel, guiding, hot-dog, major-league |
| Antonyms: | ineffective, ineffectual, unimportant, unmoving, weak, uninfluential |
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