Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a weighty manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a weighty manner.

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  • adverb In a weighty manner; ponderously; forcibly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a serious manner
  • adverb as something very heavy

Etymologies

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weighty +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • “I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.

    More from To steal her love, by Matti Joensuu Maxine 2009

  • “I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.

    Books Maxine 2009

  • The Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping's playfulness is more weightily sculptural but its lightness of spirit is no less incongruous.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • I hesitate to ascribe to Weldon the wisdom of the aged – because, inasmuch as she is weightily wise, she always leavens this with a wickedly dry wit; and besides, she seemed exactly the same to me as the first time I met her, which must have been 15 years ago, when she was a mere stripling of 65.

    You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert – review 2011

  • “I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.

    June 2009 Maxine 2009

  • Yevgeny Sudbin starts weightily enough, with one of Chopin's most extraordinary achievements, the F minor Fantasy.

    Chopin: Ballades Nos 3 and 4; F minor Fantasy; Mazurkas; Nocturnes – review 2011

  • “I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.

    PETRONA Maxine 2009

  • “I see”, said Kontio, not in passing, but weightily, as though something had just fallen into place.

    More from To steal her love, by Matti Joensuu Maxine 2009

  • I am still interested enough to watch the pilot saw his way down through the last few hundred feet to arrive weightily at Stansted.

    Madness and Miracles in Central France 2009

  • I could feel the heart and dedication sitting weightily along every chipped, wooden shelf where the librarians had long forgotten me, and I hunkered down into knowledge that was meted out at a rate determined by the speed at which I could read and find new volumes on the shelf.

    Pornography Is A Washed-Up Unicorn 2009

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