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account, Colloq cut any ice: Certain factors - like the sizes
of the bribes - are likely to weigh heavily with the judges of
this particular beauty contest. 6 weigh down. burden,
overburden, load, overload, encumber, tax, overtax, strain,
trouble, worry, depress, oppress: He's been weighed down by
financial worries since losing his job.
weight n. 1 heaviness, avoirdupois, mass, tonnage, Dialect heft: They
sell peaches by weight but melons are individually priced. The
weight of these books must be enormous. 2 burden, load,
millstone, onus, pressure, strain, albatross, cross: He has to
support the weight of the entire family's expenses. 3
influence, authority, power, substance, force, moment,
importance, consequence, impact, persuasiveness, value, worth,
Colloq clout: Clyde brought down his full weight in favour of
the liberal candidate. Clyde's opinion carries little weight
with me. He must stop throwing his weight around. 4 mass,
majority, preponderance or preponderancy, bulk, superiority:
The weight of the voters is in favour of reducing taxes. The
weight of the evidence is against us.
--v. 5 load, charge, ballast: The policemen's truncheons are
weighted with lead. 6 arrange, manipulate, bias, incline,
slant, Colloq rig: The statistics are weighted so as to make
the advertiser's product look superior.
weighty adj. 1 heavy, ponderous, massive, huge, bulky, substantial,
ample, large, mammoth, colossal, immense, enormous, gigantic,
prodigious; corpulent, fat, obese, adipose, Colloq hefty: I
found myself face to face with a rather weighty gentleman who
was blocking the doorway. 2 important, consequential,
significant, momentous, grave, crucial, portentous,
thought-provoking, provocative: These are weighty matters and
should be handled with circumspection. 3 influential,
convincing, persuasive, impressive, telling, powerful, potent,
leading; forceful: Weighty arguments have been put forward in
support of these proposals.
weird adj. strange, odd, peculiar, bizarre, unnatural, eerie, queer,
grotesque, freakish, outlandish, uncanny, unearthly,
other-worldly, supernatural, preternatural, Literary eldritch,
Colloq spooky, freaky, kinky, Slang far-out, way-out: There was
something decidedly weird about the creature at the door.