The word 'weighty' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a stake or responsibility that is of great importance or is burdensome. For example: "The weighty task of preparing for an important exam can be daunting."
There's a flood of books – 600 plus, many of them weighty academic tomes dedicated to the original dumb blonde.
Searchers for Robert Peston's weighty thoughts on Twitter (at @peston) may now find themselves looking at @robpestonhair ("keeping the brain of the BBC's economics editor warm, changing styles like he changes his coat") by mistake – a site that, confusingly, largely consists of retweets of genuine Pesto.
Toni Kroos attempts to slide a pass through the Algeria defence for Thomas Müller to chase, but his delivery is too weighty and carries straight though to M'Bolhi.
Wasswa said these words with a weighty earnestness, but they were not news to half the courtyard.
The themes are weighty – Is memory an act of faith?
(Makes 6 generously weighty cakes) 6g fast-action dried yeast (approx 1 tsp) 150ml warm water 250g self raising flour (or strong white bread flour, if you have it) ½ tsp table salt 1 tsp cinnamon 100g sultanas or other mixed dried fruit 50g butter, diced small 100g lard, diced small 1 egg to baste, optional 50g sugar Combine the yeast with 50ml lukewarm water.
After tackling in his recent novels the weighty topics of the Iraq war, family betrayal and sexual inadequacy, it is not surprising that Ian McEwan's next endeavour would address something of similar import - the pressing question of climate change.
I collapsed over the line (again!) to banish the spectre of my Spine failure and earn a weighty perspex trophy, which was nice.
On only one weighty subject does she squarely oppose the left.
They once bought six off-road lorries for carrying timber and turned them into mobile missile launchers.The trouble is that any sanctions weighty enough to stop the North Koreans realising their nuclear ambitions are unlikely to secure China's support; conversely, any sanctions that China will support will not be enough to stop the North Koreans.
Ms Merkel, Mr Cameron and the 26 other heads of state are meeting for dinner on May 27th to discuss their next steps.How this arm-wrestling goes will answer some weighty questions about the state of contemporary European politics.
