3. importance, significance, consequence, matter, value, concern, Archaic, concernment; moment, weightiness, substance, greatness, magnitude, force; graveness, seriousness, solemnity; influence, power, force, strength, pressure; effect, impact, clout; sway, mastery, hold.
4. carry weight have importance or meaning, be significant; influence, affect, sway, bias, incline; act on, play on, work on, effect; move, impel, motivate, actuate; persuade, Inf jawbone, rouse, arouse, instigate.
5. pull one's weight do one's fair share, do one's part, cooperate.
6. throw one's weight around swing one's weight, Inf. pull strings, Inf. pull rank, Inf. pull wires; SI. be a big shot, Inf. boss [s.o.] around.
-v. 7. weight down, load, add weight to, tax. See - weigh (def. 5a).
8. bias, slant; handicap, give a handicap, make allowances.
weighty, adj. 1. heavy, hefty, bulky, substantial, dense, ample; big, large, huge, gigantic, titantic, enormous, massive, ponderous, prodigious, mammoth, mighty, colossal, immense; unwieldy, cumbrous, cumbersome, awkward, unmanageable.
2. troublesome, burdensome, onerous, oppressive, back-breaking; troubling, thorny, worrisome, worrying; vexatious, bothersome, pestering.
3. important, significant, portentous, of great import; consequential, of great consequence, critical, decisive; momentous, heavy, ponderous, pregnant, carrying great weight, of substance; grave, solemn, sober; crucial, urgent, emergent, exigent, pressing, importunate, imperative.
4. influential, persuasive, powerful, potent, Literary. puissant, forceful, forcible; effective, effectual, telling, cogent; controlling, leading, guiding.
weird, adj. 1. supernatural, preternatural, uncanny, unearthly, eerie, spooky, ghostly; cryptic, esoteric, arcane, occult, perdu; inexplicable, unexplainable, in-solvable, unaccountable; puzzling, bewildering, perplexing, enigmatic, enigmatical, mystifying; mysterious, mystic, mystical, transcendental, cabalistic.
2. strange, bizarre, fantastic, fabulous, outlandish; phantasmagoric, nightmarish, Kafkaesque; irrational, mad, wild, crazy; odd, queer, eccentric, peculiar, freakish, grotesque,
welcome, inter j. 1. greetings, salutations, hello, hullo, hi, hey or heigh, how are you, Inf. how ya doin, what's new.
-n. 2. greeting, salutation, salute, salaam, hail; hearty reception, Inf. glad hand, open door, welcome mat.
-v. 3. greet, address, salute, hail, flag, wave to, Inf. give [s.o.] the glad hand; nod to, smile at, wink at, tip the hat to, doff the cap to; shake hands, squeeze or pump the hand, SI. press flesh.
4. receive, meet, usher in, show in, call in.
-adj. 5. agreeable, pleasing, to one's liking, to one's fancy, to one's taste, after one's own heart; refreshing, comfortable, enticing; gladly received,
welfare, n. 1. well-being, prosperity, happiness, felicity, health, good health, soundness, heartiness, vigor, Archaic, weal; well, success, fortune, good fortune, luck, good luck; prosperousness, affluence, wealth; comfort, contentment, satisfaction, ease, pleasure, gladness.
2. advantage, good, benefit, behoof, interest; profit, gain.
3. public assistance, financial aid, the dole; Social