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  • 51weight — I. n. 1. Heaviness, gravity, ponderousness, ponderosity. 2. Pressure, burden, load. 3. Importance, influence, power, efficacy, consequence, moment, significance, import, pith. 4. Scale, mode of estimating weight, measure, system of weighing. II.… …

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  • 52emphasis — n 1. stress, accent, italics, underlining, underscoring; significance, consequence, consideration, moment, import, note, mark; importance, priority, preeminence; weight, gravity, ponderosity; seriousness, solemnity; urgency, exigency, tension;… …

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  • 53heft — n 1. weight, weightiness, heaviness, ponder ousness, ponderosity, gravity; size, volume, mass, substance, bulk, bulkiness, largeness, bigness, amplitude, ampleness. v 2. weigh, weight, balance, weigh in the balance. 3. lift, lift up, boost, boost …

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  • 54largeness — n 1. bigness, greatness, enormity, enor mousness, hugeness, grandiosity, grandness, grandeur; magnitude, size, dimension, measure, muchness; mass, bulk, proportion, caliber; sizableness, substantiality, largishness, biggishness, considerableness; …

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  • 55mass — n 1. pile, heap, stack, accumulation, bulk, drift, cumulus; hoard, store, stock, stockpile, supply; lump, deposit, swell, mound, tumulus; bank, hillock, hummock, hill, mountain; bale, bundle, cock, shock, rick, mow; load, barrow, cartload,… …

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  • 56overweight — n 1. overbalance, excess baggage, excess, Commerce. overage. 2. obesity, fatness, excess weight, Euph. weight problem, overheaviness, overponderousness; heaviness, heftiness, weightiness, ponderousness, ponderosity; rotundity, portliness,… …

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  • 57weight — I n 1. heaviness, heft, heftiness, weightiness, ponderousness, ponderosity, gravity; pounds, tonnage, pressure; mass, density, volume, size; bulk, bulkiness, largeness, bigness, amplitude. 2. load, burden, onus, cross, millstone, albatross; duty …

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  • 58parish-pump — /ˈpærɪʃ pʌmp/ (say parish pump) adjective local; parochial: *I have no time at all, fellow citizens and electors, for parish pump politics, thumb nail theorising and platitudinous ponderosity. –eric curry, 1940 …

  • 59ponderous — /ˈpɒndərəs / (say ponduhruhs), / drəs/ (say druhs) adjective 1. of great weight; heavy; massive: a ponderous mass of iron. 2. without graceful lightness or ease; dull: *It had been a good party – George knew how to give a party even if he were… …

  • 60weight — [n1] heaviness adiposity, avoirdupois, ballast, burden, density, G factor*, gravity, gross, heft, heftiness, load, mass, measurement, net, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, pressure, substance, tonnage; concept 795 weight [n2] something used… …

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