gravity

gravity
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, counterpoise; load, lading, freight; lead, millstone. See size, attraction.
2. (systems of weight) avoirdupois, troy, or apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, dram, ounce, pound, load, stone, hundredweight, cental, peck, [short or long] ton, carat, pennyweight; gram, picogram, nanogram, microgram, centigram, decigram, dekagram, hectogram, kilogram, quintal, metric ton; assay ton, carat, keel, kip, megaton, troy ounce; arroba, catty, denarius, drachma, kantar, liang, livre, mark, maund, mina, mite, momme, obolus, oka, pound, picul, pocket, pood, rotl, rundlet, ser, shekel, stone, talent, tael, tod, tola, tower pound; tare and tret.
3. (weighing devices) balance, scale[s], steelyard, beam, weighbridge, weigh station, spring balance, platform scale.
Verbs — be heavy; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load; weigh in at, tip the scales at; weight, weigh down; outweigh, overbalance; gain or put on weight.
Adjectives
1. gravitational.
2. weighty, weighted; weighing; heavy, ponderous, ponderable; loaded, sagging; lumpish, lumpy; cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive, hefty.
Quotations — The fatal law of gravity: when you are down everything falls on you (Sylvia Warner), A light wife doth make a heavy husband (Shakespeare).
Antonyms, see levity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Weight]
Syn. heaviness, pressure, force; see gravitation .
2. [Importance]
Syn. seriousness, concern, significance; see importance 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. gravitation pull, attraction, pressure, force, weight.
2. seriousness importance, weightiness, consequence, magnitude, significance, urgency, import, enormity.
ANT.: 1. repulsion. 2. insignificance, triviality, frivolity
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being grave and of involving serious consequences: graveness, momentousness, seriousness, weightiness. See IMPORTANT. 2. High seriousness of manner or bearing: graveness, sedateness, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, staidness. See ATTITUDE, HEAVY, STYLE.

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