weightsome

comparative more weightsome · superlative most weightsome

1. Of, pertaining to, possessing, or characterised by weight; weighty; weightful; heavy; grave; grievous.

   "Fate-dispenser," Medford Browne was wont to ask her on occasion, "how canst thou be so blithe when so weightsome is thy day's allotment of labor?"

   1912, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joe Mitchell Chapple, National magazine - Volume 35 - Page 297

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   On next meeting Mrs. Ottarson, she permitted no semblance of complaint or of adverse criticism to evidence the weightsome discouragement that oppressed her.

   1887, The American Magazine, volume 6, page 406

   Synonyms: earnest, solemn, austere, frightful, demure, serious, grave, earnest