weightiness

  • 101ponderosity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being physically heavy: heaviness, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, weight, weightiness. Informal: avoirdupois. See HEAVY …

    English dictionary for students

  • 102ponderousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being physically heavy: heaviness, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, weight, weightiness. Informal: avoirdupois. See HEAVY …

    English dictionary for students

  • 103significancy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality or state of being important: concern, concernment, consequence, import, importance, moment, significance, weight, weightiness. See IMPORTANT. 2. That which is signified by a word or expression:… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 104dapper — [15] Modern English dapper connotes neatness, alertness, and liveliness, but its etymological significance as revealed by distant relatives such as Old High German tapfar ‘heavy’, Old Prussian debīkan ‘large’, and Old Slavic debelu ‘thick’, is… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 105serious — [15] Serious comes ultimately from Latin sērius ‘serious, grave’. From this was derived late Latin sēriōsus, which passed into English via Old French serieux. It is not clear where sērius came from, although some have linked it with German schwer …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 106graveness — n. importance, weightiness; severity; seriousness …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 107heaviness — heav·i·ness || hevɪnɪs n. condition of being heavy; weightiness, seriousness; oppressiveness …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 108oppressiveness — op pres·sive·ness || É™ presɪvnɪs n. suppression; tyranny, despotism; dictatorship; distressfulness, burdensomeness, onerousness, weightiness …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 109gravitas —    (GRAH vee tahs) [Latin] Weight; weightiness; importance; consequence. Dignity or seriousness of character.    For a full thirty minutes they sustained the illusion of gravitas once prized by Cicero and Cato the Elder. Harper’s Magazine, March… …

    Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

  • 110weighty — adjective (weightier, weightiest) 1》 weighing a great deal; heavy. 2》 very serious and important.     ↘very influential. Derivatives weightily adverb weightiness noun …

    English new terms dictionary