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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weighty \Weight"y\, adjective [Compar. {Weightier}; superl. {Weightiest}.]
1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. ''For sundry weighty reasons.'' --Shak.
Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. --Swift.
3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. [R.] ''Attend our weightier judgment.'' --Shak.
Syn: Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous; efficacious; impressive; cogent.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weighty
adjective
1: having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load"; "a weighty package" [ant: {weightless}]
2: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" [syn: {grave}, {grievous}, {heavy}]
3: weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems"
4: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {obese}, {rotund}]
5: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: {cogent}, {telling}] [also: {weightiest}, {weightier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
224 Moby Thesaurus words for "weighty": Gargantuan, absolute, adducible, admissible, amplitudinous, ascendant, astronomical, attestative, attestive, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, awe-inspiring, awesome, based on, big, binding, boundless, bulky, burdensome, certain, charismatic, charming, circumstantial, clothed with authority, cogent, colossal, commanding, competent, conclusive, consequential, considerable, consistent, controlling, convincing, corpulent, cosmic, cumbersome, cumbrous, cumulative, damning, decisive, decorous, demanding, demure, determinative, dignified, documentary, documented, dominant, duly constituted, earnest, effective, effectual, efficacious, elevated, eminent, empowered, enchanting, enormous, estimable, evidential, evidentiary, ex officio, ex parte, exacting, exhausting, exigent, extensive, eye-witness, factual, fat, fatal, fateful, final, firsthand, fleshy, formal, formidable, founded on, frowning, galactic, gigantic, good, governing, grand, grave, great, grievous, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, grinding, gross, grounded on, harsh, hearsay, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hegemonic, hegemonistic, huge, immeasurable, immense, imperative, implicit, important, imposing, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, infinite, influential, inspiring, irrefutable, irresistible, just, king-size, large, lawful, leaden, leading, legal, legitimate, lofty, logical, long-faced, magnetic, majestic, mammoth, massive, massy, material, meaningful, mighty, momentous, monocratic, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, moving, no-nonsense, noble, nuncupative, obese, official, onerous, oppressive, outsize, overburdensome, overgrown, overweight, overwhelming, personable, persuasive, ponderous, portentous, portly, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, presumptive, probative, prodigious, prominent, puissant, ranking, reliable, reputable, ruling, sedate, self-consistent, senior, serious, severe, significant, sizable, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, solid, somber, sound, spacious, staid, stately, stone-faced, stout, straight-faced, strong, stupendous, suasive, sublime, substantial, sufficient, suggestive, superincumbent, superior, supreme, sure, symptomatic, taxing, telling, thoughtful, titanic, totalitarian, tough, tremendous, tyrannous, unsmiling, valid, vast, voluminous, wearing, wearying, well-founded, well-grounded, winning
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