adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a weighty matter (= an important matter )
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I was surprised that this weighty matter was decided so quickly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Before deciding on any weighty matter, he consults his staff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it finds agreement with more sober, weighty judgements on the period provided by various studies of the official criminal statistics.
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High-handicap Kaori, however, foresaw a weightier problem: her bag.
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I confess that I was surprised that this weighty matter was decided so quickly and with so little ceremony.
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Reading a terse or weighty document will inhibit, rather than encourage, word flow.
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Remember that books are weighty things.
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The State of the Union address was a weighty and substantial occurence, though without startling new developments.
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When I was out of the room, he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that.