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  • 41underweight — Synonyms and related words: avoirdupois, bantamweight, beef, beefiness, boniness, bony, deadweight, fatness, featherweight, flat, flat chested, fleshless, fleshlessness, frailness, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gauntness, gawkiness, gawky, gravity,… …

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  • 42gravity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. weight (see gravity); graveness, importance. Ant., lightness, unimportance. II Weight Nouns 1. gravity, gravitation; weight, weighing; heft, heaviness; ponderosity, pressure, burden; ballast,… …

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  • 43weight — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. heaviness; heft; overweight, avoirdupois, tonnage, poundage; gravity; ballast; measurement; importance, influence; significance; pressure, load, burden. See quantity. v. ballast, load, burden; favor;… …

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  • 44heaviness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. burden, denseness, ballast; see density 1 , mass 1 , weight 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being physically heavy: heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness, weight, weightiness.… …

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  • 45avoirdupois — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. The state or quality of being physically heavy: heaviness, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness, weight, weightiness. See HEAVY …

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  • 46heftiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being physically heavy: heaviness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness, weight, weightiness. Informal: avoirdupois. See HEAVY …

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  • 47massiveness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being physically heavy: heaviness, heftiness, ponderosity, ponderousness, weight, weightiness. Informal: avoirdupois. See HEAVY …

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  • 48ponderousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being physically heavy: heaviness, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, weight, weightiness. Informal: avoirdupois. See HEAVY …

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  • 49weightiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The state or quality of being physically heavy: heaviness, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness, weight. Informal: avoirdupois. See HEAVY. 2. The condition of being grave and of involving serious… …

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  • 50ponderous — adjective 1》 slow and clumsy because of great weight. 2》 dull or laborious. Derivatives ponderosity noun ponderously adverb ponderousness noun Origin ME: via Fr. from L. ponderosus, from pondus, ponder weight …

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