The phrase "a weighty matter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a serious or significant issue that requires careful consideration or thought.
Example: "The committee convened to discuss a weighty matter that could impact the future of the organization."
Alternatives: "a serious issue" or "a significant concern".
He encouraged visitors to pay with 40 rolls of pennies (weighing about 12½ pounds) to show that the steep admission price was a weighty matter.
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These give some idea of a sample's age.In this section Fired up Sleepy heads Signs of life A weighty matter ReprintsThe result is a profile that is often characteristic of a particular type of reactor or centrifuge, and sometimes of an individual machine and can also indicate how long ago the processing took place.
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Getting married is – or should be – a weighty matter, and is always worthy of celebration, whether the wedding takes place with full rites before hundreds of formally dressed onlookers in St Paul's Cathedral, or before a casual group of 55 wellwishers at home on a hillside in Los Angeles, with music, dancing, dogs and samosas.
Some hours later, he had a weightier matter to consider.
"An investigation of a sitting governor of New York is a complex, weighty matter indeed," Mr. Cuomo said in a conference call with reporters on Thursday afternoon.
There is something about blessings and curses that are both a very weighty matter, taken with the utmost seriousness by the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud.
In English, we would translate roughly, "all the more so": If a small matter like X requires our attention, then how much more so does this apply to Y, a more weighty matter.
"This is an incredibly weighty matter," the official said.
